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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION 

RICHARD K. CAMPBELL. Commissioner 



SECOND YEAR 



OF THE 



WORK of the PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

WITH THE 

BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION 



By RAYMOND F. CRIST 

DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF NATURALIZATION 




7^rC' 



Extract from the Annual Report of the Commissioner 
of Naturalization for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917 



WASHINGiON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFHCE 

1918 



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SECOND YEAR OF THE 

WOKK OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



WITH THE 



BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION 



AMEBICANIZATION ACTIVITY. 

The Americanization activity of the Federal Government was shown 
for the first time in the last annual report of this bureau, where the 
accomplishments of something over two years' work were presented. 
The results of that period were presented also in the shape of a bul- 
letin entitled 'The Work of the Public Schools with the Bureau of 
Naturalization.'' While the successes of the first year were most en- 
couraging, they related to the preliminary work of presentation of the 
original plan of April 20, 1914, to the public schools and, through them, 
to the public generally. The unanimous indorsement and appeal for 
launching the cooperative work with the public schools which this 
bureau received during the fiscal years 1914 and 1915, accompanied by 
the work necessary to clear the decks for this, the peculiarly national 
governmental function of this bureau, made it possible in the fiscal 
year 1916 to initiate this citizenship-building undertaking. 

The third year of Americanization work, which was~the first year 
of actual unity of eftort between the public schools and the Federal 
Government through the Bureau of Naturalization, was productive ol 
practical results of a wide and far-reaching character. The linking 
together of the public schools with the Federal Government was defi- 
nitely accomplished. The forward movement for the betterment of 
American citizenship in all its aspects took upon itself an impetus 
which would admit of no denial. While that fiscal 3'ear showed a 
joining together of 613 cities, towns, and villages with this bureau 
m this great Americanization enterprise, the year under review in this 
report accomplished even greater results. This year witnessed the 
the astounding advance into 1,141 new localities. In all of these, 
combined with the 613 centers reported in the preceding year, the 
work has gone forward — work of rejuvenating, rebuilding, and placing 
within reach of the adult immigrant candidate for citizenship those 
opportunities which exist on every hand but from which he is shut 
off by the barrier of a foreign tongue and foreign traditions. The 

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greatest attention has been given to the declarant and emphasis 
placed upon the importance of his attendance upon one of the public 
night schools that are opening their doors by the thousands all over 
the land in direct response to the appeals of this bureau. The 
thought that was expressed by the Secretary in his annual report for 
the last fiscal year, that — 

In so far as applicants for citizenship avail themselves of these opportunities, they 
may acquire a keener appreciation of further ones: Better work, better wages, better 
standards, better family life, better community Life, and a better understanding not 
merely of our Constitution and our laws but of our history, institutions, and ideals — 

is being vitalized in all of these communities. 

To accomplish all of this the public schools and the expectant, 
desiring, and willing seeker after opportunity must be brought to- 
gether in a closer relationship. The things that are practical are the 
things that are needed by the student candidates in their search for 
the means of a better livelihood and hence a better American spirit; 
and they are the things needed by the schools themselves to realize 
their desire to impart knowledge to these millions amongst us from 
lands with institutions strange to us. The teachers are willing and 
the school officers are striving in every way to bring to this new field 
of activity a practical application of all the experience which the 
science of pedagogy contains. 

A great stride has been made toward the realization of the ex- 
pectations which this great work of cooperation between the bureau 
and the public schools justified. The expansion during the past 
year into a new field nearly twice as great as that which presented 
itself in the third year is proof positive of ultimate success. This 
expansion of the work to this new field has been pronounced as most 
timely in view of the national crisis that has confronted the Nation 
since the former report. The readiness of cooperation by the public 
schools undoubtedly is traceable directly to the realization locally 
of the need for more compactness, more thoroughness of organiza- 
tion, and a greater unity and efficiency of action between these 
State and Federal agencies. This closer cooperation will mean the 
elimination of the hostile alien from among those who are being 
added to the body politic. The spirit of alienage can not survive in 
the presence of the intense Americanizing force that is being built 
up in the public schoolhouses in these communities throughout the 
land. In large cities and small those in supervision of the school 
work have urged the continuance and strengthening of the ties of 
relationship which have been created through this union of forces. 

Tlie cards containing the names of the candidates for citizenship, 
::ent out monthly during the previous year by the bureau to the 
public-school authorities, were continued during the present year; 
m such large number did they go that, as pointed out in the last 
annual report, the school authorities in certain cities were wholly 
unable to reap the benefits of this new source of accessions to their 
school ranks. The high favor with which these cards were received 
and acted upon generally throughout the United States proves their 
value. They have become the means by which the schools have 
recruited their night classes in many hundreds of communities. In 
large cities where the funds have been available and adequate to 



deal with this particular phase of constructive school work the school 
officers have reported to the bureau the great and invaluable aid the 
cards have been in securing the attendance of those who could not 
ordinarily be reached. In the cities of New York, Chicago, and Bos- 
ton the school machinery was wholly inadequate to the task of secur- 
ing the attendance of the thousands of alien declarants whose names 
were furnished by the bureau. At the request of the school authorities 
in these cities the bureau discontinued furnishing them with the cards. 
The inadequacy of the school forces to meet the opportunity pre- 
sented to them by the bureau to enlarge their night and day class 
personnel is in itself a clear manifestation of the need for remedial 
action within the ranks of these schools to overcome this great defi- 
ciency on their part. This is specially seen when it is known that 
they were able to secure the attendance of only a negligible portion 
of the thousands shown by the bureau to the schools as needing this 
help. So long as there are hundreds of thousands of aliens in a single 
community unable to speak the English language, ju^t so long is that 
community harboring and nursing a fester spDt in its body politic. 
Just so long as a community has hundreds of thousands in its midst 
who are unable to speak the English language, every effort should be 
made to w^rk with all forces that will lend aid, so that their attend- 
ance upon the public-school night classes or day classes, or both, may 
be secured. Just so Jong as there is any defect in the school machinery 
or the municipal machinery whereby this vast horde of instinctive 
aliens are prevented from securing the benefits of American institu- 
tions of government, there is a most pronounced weakness in that 
part of the municipal organization. It matters not whether the 
weakness be in the mdividuals in charge or in the machinery of gov- 
ernment, its existence is none the less evident and none the less defi- 
cient in meeting the requirements of the situation. Until there is 
harmony of action between the Federal and State agencies having 
charge of these two phases of the development of the citizenship 
candidates coming from the resident alien body the admissions on 
the part of the school authorities of their failure and inability to 
interest the alien adult immigrant in the school curriculum will be 
made. In any community where the problem is too large for the 
local authorities to measure up to the opportunity presented by 
the Bureau of Naturalization in bringing to their attention vast 
numbers of foreigners, candidates for citizenship honors, the bureau 
is only too glad to exert itself to enable the school authorities to 
realize their full desires. The bureau fully believes that it is the 
earnest hope, desire, and intention of the local school authorities 
everywhere to secm*e the maximum attendance of these citizenship 
candidates, and that they are not to be content until that maximum 
represents 100 per cent of all who need the aid which the public- 
school forces offer. This is the assertion made by the public-school 
authorities at the same time they admitted their inabilitv to use the 
cards containing the names of the thousands of uneducated and 
illiterate candidates for citizenship. 

The bureau, nevertheless, continued sending letters of invitation 
to the candidates inviting them to attend the public schools nearest 
their places of residence m these large cities. In aU other localities 



the bureau continued its practice of sending to the school authorities 
the cards containing the alien declarants' names, the petitioners' 
names, and the names of their wives. The letters oi invitation 
addressed to ahens urging them to attend the schools and expressing 
the interest of the bureau in them because of their prospective Ameri- 
can citizensliip were sent to every community as heretofore, regard- 
less of the failure of some to use the cards. This situation can not 
be more appropriately referred to than by the words of the Hon. 
Samuel Gompers in his address at the session on July 11 of the first 
citizenship convention: 

We are making a mistake unless we also use our efforts to have our foreign-speaking 
peoples enter into the very life work of our municipalities and of our States and of 
our country. Foreign settlements usually mean the combination of a few people from 
a certain country forming a colony in a certain district of that other country and have 
really no purpose other than sociability and a better understanding and a ready yielding 
to the constituted authority of the country. In the United States they mean entirely 
something else. Here we have a great mass of peoples coming from the shores of every 
country on the face of the globe, who form colonies in every city and town of these 
United States, colonies of the peoples of their respective countries — hotbeds of dis- 
integration and disloyalty. I hold it to be the duty of every agency of government 
and civic bodies and the individual citizens to help in the movement that shall merge 
the people coming here from every clime into one great whole, the people, the citizen 
ship of the United States of America. 

Until there is a realization of the responsibility locally and every 
effort made by these local agencies to cooperate with the Federal 
Government there is a failure to utilize all the forces available for the 
Americanization of the alien who is seeking the rights and privileges 
and immunities as well as responsibilities of American citizenship. 

In the continuance of tliis work the bureau extended invitations 
to and received assurances from the school authorities in 1,759 cities 
and towns cooperating. This did not mean, in the majority of in- 
stances, efforts on their part to increase the attendance upon the night 
classes already formed for teaching English and other subjects to 
the adult foreigner. It meant the creation for the first time of an 
opportunity for the alien candidate for citizenship, and all other 
resident aliens, to attend night classes organized by the pubhc- 
school authorities especially for their instruction. It meant opening 
a new field of activity on the part of the public schools in over a 
thousand new cities, towns, and villages. 

It meant the extension for the first time of the public-school 
facilities to embrace the adult within the enrollment. 

It meant a breaking away entirely from the old idea that the public 
schools are for use only from 9 to 3 for five days a week and for 
from four to eight months in the year. 

It means the opportunity for the development of the community 
spirit in all of its manifestations. 

It means to embrace within the American zone and atmosphere 
the millions of foreigners throughout the length and breadth of the 
land who now are debarred as distinctly from that sphere as though 
they lived in commmiities located in the mountain fastnesses or rural 
areas of European countries. Whether one enters a small community 
or a large one having an alien population, the distinctly "foreign set- 
tlement" is well known. No spirit of community fellowship or com- 
munity fraternahsm is to be found; the resident aliens are isolated 



from all influences American. They are as distinctly mider the sway 
of foreign influences of government as though they were a distinct 
group sent out from the fatherland for colomzation purposes, to im- 
plant and perpetuate upon this new soil the autocratic institutions of 
government under which they were born. These institutions are 
transplanted in their most iniquitous form, because they are devoid 
of the higher and better elements of the foreign system. This coloni- 
zation results in the domination of the group by superstitions, preju- 
dices, and fears, all of which are groundless but nevertheless deep- 
rooted. All thoughtful citizens of the community realize this, but 
few have virile Americanism sufficient to cause them to see the men- 
ace of this condition or seeing it to adopt the means immediately at 
hand for overcoming, peacefiifly and quietly, this abnormal condition. 
A catastrophe of some kind is needed, generally, to awake the public 
consciousness to the state of activity. Even then the catastrophe 
must be purely local and not general in its character. Fortunately, 
world events have been turning people more and more to thoughtful 
action. The great alien problem has more and more been brought 
home by the incidents of the European war, even before this Nation 
became involved in it. Under this influence the appeals of the 
Bureau of Naturahzation have received widespread and favorable 
attention, as shown by the enormous expansion of its influence into 
over 1,754 communities thi'ou^h efforts continuing for the short space 
of three and one-half years. In April, 1914, when the plan for coop- 
eration was matured, there was no direct concerted cooperation be- 
tween the public schools of the United States and the Bureau of 
Naturalization. Prior to that time there had been successful efforts 
at individual cooperation. With the close of the fiscal year on June 
30, 1917, the public schools in 1,754 communities had cast their lot 
with the bureau in a national citizenship-building undertaking. The 
names of the places entering into cooperation with the bureau appear 
in the ensuing table. 

Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papera filed in 
fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



1 

Foreign-born 
Population, 1910. white males of 
voting age, 1910. 

State and city or town. . j 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 


Total. 


'tr- Total. ^-^ 

white. '^^«^- 


Decla- Peti- 
rations. tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


i 
Alabama. I 

Birmingluiiu 1 i 132, f'iH5 


:>,700 2,9-!! 1,179 
3-11 190 94 

3, 474 2, 023 5.58 


52.3 125 


00 


13 


4 


Be'-semer ! 10,864 




Arizona. 

Bisbee 9,019 

Blue Bell Mine 


1 15 i::o 
70 36 

35 19 


42 


50 


3.3 


Douglas 2 ; 0,-137 

Morenoi 


2,250 919 186 


13 


2i 
6 


17 
4 



' Includes activities at East I-ake, Ensley, Fairfield, Oatc City, Pratt City, and Warrior. 
2 Includes actiyities at Pirtleyille. 



Table 24.~Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns — 

Continued. 

[Figiires not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-born 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1 , 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
wMte. 


i 
Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wiveSi 


Calif omia. 


23, 383 
40, 434 
2,613 


5,555 

7,653 

636 


2,842 

3,627 

374 


1,720 

2,096 

224 






23 

67 


38 
43 


3& 








51 
















16 




8 




3,540 
11,845 
24, 892 

2,437 

2,308 

17,809 

319, 198 

5,021 


604 
3,000 
5,445 


348 
2,228 
2,487 


79 
1,076 
1, 006 


39 
161 
351 


25 
49 
133 




Eureka 2 


8 
22 


9 
36 


8 




34 


Gilroy 












25 


9 


2 
9 

383 


2 

2 

343 


L 




1,942 

60, 584 
983 


901 

29, 576 
5S5 


470 

14,097 

174 


T 


Los Angeles ^ 


2,814 


1,103 


324 




















1,161 
150, 174 
3,471 
4,274 
2,555 
30,291 



















Oakland 


36,822 

1,108 

581 

618 

4,297 


19, 334 

559 

283 

334 

1,772 


10,237 

279 

155 

108 

1,101 


1,124 


130 


241 


243 


259 






Ontario ^ 


94 
38 


58 
15 


6 

'"'26' 

1 
2 


1 
1 
17 


1 


Oxnard 






l.S 








1 




10,207 
10, 449 
2,935 

2,442 

15,212 

44, 096 

39, 578 

416,912 

28, 946 

4,348 

4,384 


882 

1,346 

463 


438 
649 
262 


219 
372 
116 














2 


2 


Redondo Beach s 














2 
3 

53 

29 

1,942 

22 


3 

5 

84 

206 

1,104 

25 


1 




2,166 
8,885 
7,366 
130, 874 
5,817 
1,135 
1,031 


1,065 
5,331 

3,845 
75, 768 

2,963 
597 
538 


454 

2,424 

2,057 

36,375 

1,637 

287 

338 






4 


Sacramento 


416 

316 

5,280 

367 


178 

164 

2,383 

126 


49 


San Diego ^ 


106- 


San Francisco ^o 

San Jose ^^ 


894 
1& 






San Mateo 


238 


103 


7 


15 


i» 






San Rafael 


5,934 
8,429 

11, 659 
7,847 
7,817 
4,649 
1,989 

23, 253 


1,747 
884 
1,793 
1,248 
1,318 
558 


932 
408 
877 
576 
667 
264 


466 
246 
417 
263 
376 
149 


95 
53 
157 


39 
41 

57 


1 

1 
20 

4 
14 


9 
2 
12 

6' 


4 




1 




la' 




3 


Santa Rosa 


198 


89 


T 


South Pasadena. _ 










I 


Stockton 


4,478 


2,679 


1,074 


244 


79 


.36 
4 


25 

7 

1 


23 




8- 













28 


12 


1 














Colorado. 








i 












142 

1,782 

29,078 

6,206 

2,388 

213, 381 

8,210 

266 
















Central City '" 






1 


1 6 

i 81 
i 27 

! 10 

: 841 

40 


ii 

37 

24 

9 

353 

35 








Colorado Springs 


2,9S1 
S49 


1,434 
473 


748 
367 














Delta 










38,941 
893 


19, 204 
373 


10, 959 
156 


65 
108 


122 

7 


121 


Fort Collins 


4 


Frederick 





1 Includes activities at Albany. 

2 Includes activities at Elk River, Fairhaven, 
Freshwater, Ryans Slough, and Samoa. 

3 Includes activities at Alimitos Bay, Seal Beach, 
and WUmington. 

* Includes activities at Hollywood and Hunting- 
ton Park. 

6 Includes activities at Alta Loma, Chino, Cuca- 
monga, Etiwanda, Guasti, and Upland. 

8 Includes activities at La Manda. 

7 Includes activities at Claremont, Lordsburg, 
San Dimas, and Walnut. 



8 Includes activities at Hermosa Beach, Manhat- 
tan Beach, and Perry. 

9 Includes activities at Chula Vista, Coronado, 
East San Diego, and National City. 

10 Includes activities at Daly City. 

11 Includes activities at Berryessa, Edenvale, 
Hester, Milpitas, and Sunol. 

12 Includes activities at Sawtelle, The Palms, and 
Soldiers Home. 

13 Includes activities at Black Hawk, Nevada, 
Russell Gulch, and Tolland. 







Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or touns — 
Continued. 

[Flares not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1918, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- Decla- ] Peti- 
ized. rations.! tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


C olorado — Continued . 
Gorham' 














23 
1 

9 


1 


1 


Grand Junction 


7,754 
8,179 

693 
7,508 
1,706 

222 

44, 395 

3,230 

4,425 

527 
3,044 

349 
1,756 
10,204 

15, 152 
1,337 
102,054 
6,134 
5,712 

13,502 
1,419 

23,502 
3,792 


724 
691 


405 
357 


i96 
172 


33 
124 


10 




Greelev ^ 


5 


g 


Hastings 


.... .L - :" 




Leadville 


2,232 


1,253 


880 


105 
35 


46 
20 


12 


24 


13 


Louisville ' 




Oak Creek 














Pueblo 


8,33i 
145 
499 


4,777 

68 

256 


1,773 
44 
159 


224 
16 
45 
11 


90 
23 
11 
11 


34 


25 


31 


Rocky Ford 




Salida 








Somerset 








Sterling < 


418 


185 


45 


33 1 26 


J 

23 

1 

212 


3 


2 


Superior... 




Telluride ' 








42 ; 16 
149 i 39 


1 

■■■■l4' 



137 


1 


Trinidad 


1,293 
5,711 


654 
2,920 


368 
1,131 




Connecticut. 

Ansonia 


12 


-Vvon 




1 


Bridgeport >> 


36, 180 
1,053 
1,199 
3,982 


17, 114 

768 

545 

1,985 


6,563 
261 
287 
695 


2,456 602 


177 


Fairfield 




Stratford 












Bristol' 






i5 

5 

21 


9 
4 
9 


16 


f ■he.'iter 






2 


Danbury 


5,526 
502 


2,087 
248 


1,243 
ICl 




15 


Bethel 






Elmwood 




2 





2 


West Hartford 


4,808 
9,719 
16,403 
98,915 
8,138 
3,148 
6,545 
13,041 
32,066 
20,749 
12,722 
43,916 
3,728 
2,882 
133,605 
19, 059 
6,495 
2,804 
3,097 
24, 211 
28, 219 


i,3i9 

3,787 

5,080 

31,243 

1,487 

055 

1,758 

5,006 

9,390 

6,398 

4,283 

18,015 

1,166 

528 

42,784 

4,561 

908 

731 

571 

5,686 

8,405 


SCO 

1,609 

2,301 

13,975 

086 

431 

788 

2, 126 

4,346 

2,804 

2,075 

8,843 

67(; 

2(i4 

19, 194 

1,993 

416 

306 

390 

2,473 

3,558 


254 
479 
784 

6,294 
348 
145 
340 

1,073 

2,308 

1,025 
889 

3,054 
187 
119 

8,628 
701 
151 
94 
88 
978 

1,456 






Enfield 










CJreenwich 




15 
212 




16 
115 


16 


Hartford 

East Hartford 


3, 134 682 


157 


Wethersfield 










Huntington 






.... 




^lanchester 






1 
16 

4 

114 




22 
12 
11 
3 
42 


19 


Meriden 






13 


Middletowns 

Naugatucks 


228 


58 


5 
3 


T^ew Britain i" 






56 


Berlin 








Flainville 












^ew Haven 

New London " 


4,808 


829 


192 
23 


94 
18 


116 
23 


Groton 








Montville 












Waterford 












Norwalk 






15 
13 


7 


17 


Poquonock 


0O5 


154 


16 


Rainbow 




1.... 














Putnam 

Rockvilleis 

Southington i< 


7,280 
7,977 
6, 516 


1,780 
2,764 
1,724 


801 

1,238 

855 


284 
ti86 
239 


305 
248 


85 
42 


20 
2 

1 
23 


6 
5 1 

1 ' 

2 1 


20 
2 


South Jfanchester 






12 



> Includes activities at Marshall and Monarch. 

2 Includes activities at Evans, Kersey, La Salle, 
and Lucerne. ** 

3 Includes activities at Monarch No. 2 and Sunny- 
side Mine. 

* Includes activities at .\twood. Crook, Gray- 
lln, Ileff, Merino^ I'adroni, and Willard. 

'•• Includes activities at Liberty Bell Mine, Sraug- 

fler. Smuggler Mill, Smuggler Mine, and Tomboy 
line. 
6 Includesactivitiesat Long Hill, Nichols, Strats- 
fleld, and Trumbull. 

41604—18 2 



' Includes activities at East Bristol, Forestville, 
and Terr\'%ille. 

8 Includes activities at South Farms. 

» Includes activities at Beacon Falls. 
'0 Includes activities at Newington. 
" Includes activities at Mystic. 
'2 Includes activities at Norwichtown, Taftville 
and Yantic. 
>s Includes activities at Tolland. 
i< Includes activities at Cheshire. 



10 



Table 24.— Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 

fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns — 

Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 



Connecticut — Continued. 

South Norwalk i 

Westport 

Wilton 

Stamford 

Darien 

Suffleld 

Thompson 

Thompson ville 

Torrington 2 

Vernon 3 

Stafford Springs 

Wallingford 

Waterbury ■< 

Watertown 

Westport 

Windsor s 

District of Columbia. 

Washington 6 

Alexandria, Va 

Florida. 

Jacksonville 

Georgia. 

Atlanta , 

Idaho. 

Boise , 

Illinois. 

Alton 

Arlington Heights , 

Aurora ' 

Belleville 

Benton 8 

Berwyn s 

Bloomington 

Blue Island 10 

Harvej'^ 

Morgan Park 

Buckner 

Chicago '1 

Evanston 

Chicago Heights 

Christopher 12 

Cicero 

Decatur 

DeKalb" 

Rochelle 

Sycamore 

East St. Louis 

Galesbui'g ^* 

Glencoe 

Granite City 

Harrisburg i* 

Herrin 

Highland Parkie 

Johnston City 



Population, 1910. 



Total. 



8,96S 
4, 259 
1,706 
28,836 
3,946 
3,841 
4,801 



16,840 
1,110 
3,059 
11, 155 
73, 141 
3,850 
4,259 
4,178 

331,069 
15,329 

57, 699 

154, 839 

17,358 

17, 528 
1,943 

29,807 

21, 122 
2, 675 
5,841 

25,768 
8,043 
7,227 
3,694 



Foreign- 
born 
white. 



Foreign-born 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 



Total. 



1,057 



482 



8,872 

■947 

874 

1,871 



3,979 
506 
467 
789 



6,064 
291 

1,111 

3,302 

25,498 

974 

1,057 
786 

24, 351 
320 



3,003 
124 
491 

1,570 

12,403 

328 

482 

379 

11,738 
179 



2,488 j 1,308 
4,410 : 2,287 
2,283 i 1,555 



Natural- 
ized. 



,486 
213 
107 
140 



,198 

68 

101 

563 

,662 
109 
180 
125 

,474 
86 

587 



Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 



Decla- 
rations. 



439 



Peti- 
tions. 



726 



1,504 



764 



6,702 
2,500 

229 
1,570 
3,407 
1,903 
1,784 

662 



,185,283 i 

24,978 j 

14,525 j 

1,825 

14,557 

31,140 I 

8,102 ! 

2,732 

3,926 

58,547 

22,089 

1,899 

9,903 

6,309 

6,861 

4,209 

3,248 1 



3, 566 

1,227 

122 

751 

1,612 

1,015 

974 

310 



,795 

770 

17 

.536 

,1.52 
625 
385 
230 



781,217 379,850 
5, 700 2, 501 
6,077 i 3,539 



6,072 
2,422 
2,584 
420 
686 
9,400 
3,590 



3,196 
1,127 
1,478 
195 
349 
5,729 
1,844 



2,784 
295 

1,080 
864 
696 



1,863 
180 
565 
341 
379 



1,354 
694 
637 
126 
234 
1,613 
1,192 



344 
49 
205 
120 
131 



201 
144 
112 

835 



67 
72 
32 
115 



136 



105 
"'29' 



38,269 i 8,895 



84 
107 



1,513 

54 



128 
22 



62 
131 



Names furnished. 



De- 
clar- 
ants. 



Peti- 
tioners. 



12 
161 



7 1 

11 I 

15 I 

I 

1 ! 



28 
37 j 
120 1 

6 1 



Candi- 
dates' 
wives.. 



28- 
"i 



25' 
4 



21 

104 



I 

8$ 



14 
29« 

& 



{■; 



58 
3,162 



1 
3,153 




3,032 



2 

3* 
IT 



1* 
6 
I 
2 

7 



1 Includes activities at East Norwalk and Ro- 
wayton. 

2 Includes activities at Burrville, Torringford, 
and West Torrington. 

3 Includes activities at Ellington, Talcottville, 
and Vernon Center, but not those for Rockville. 

< Includes activities at Middlebury, Prospect, 
and Wolcott. 

i Includes activities at Wilson. 

6 Includes activities at Hyattsville, Mount 
Raini:>r, and Rockville, Md., and Rosslyn, Va. 

' Includes activities at Montgomery and North 
Aurora. 



8 Includes activities at West City. 

» Includes activities at Clyde, Morton Park, and 
North Berwyn. 

1° Includes activities at Burr Oak. 

" Includes activities at Austin, Hawthorn, Jeffer- 
son, and Kensington. 

'2 Includes activities at Hodgetown and Urbain. 

13 Includes activities at Cortland, Creston, Elburn, 
Malta, Maple Park, and Rollo. 

'< Includes activities at East Galesburg. 

16 Includes activities at Carriers Mills and liCdfordL 

i« Includes activities at Highwood. 



11 

'^^/.!:^7 ^'^■—^o^^isn-bom white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
feinued! '^^' '"''' """^ ^^'f^r-nished, by States and Jie7o7iCns- 

Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 



Illinois— Continued. 

Joliet 1 

Lake Forest '. 

La Salle 2 

Madison 

Marion .' 

Ma jnvood 

Melrose Park 

Moline ^ 

East Moline ... 

North Chicago. . 

Oak Park 

Oglesby 

Ottawa 

Pana ] ' 

Peona 

Peru '.'. 

Rockford 

Rock Island 

Royalton * 

St. Charles V. 

Sesser 

Springfield '.'. 

Springvalley a 

Strcator 

Waukcpan 

Westville e .' _ 

Bridge Farm 

Woodstock 

Zeigler 

Indiana. 

Anderson ' 

Alexandria 

Elwood 

Frankfort 

Clinton 

East Chicago* 

Elkhart , 

Fort Wayne » 

Gary , 

Hammond "> 

Indianapolis 

Kokomo" " 

Laporte 

Logansport 

Mishawaka 

Peru '. 

Richmond 

South Bend 

Sullivan 

Vinccnnes 

Whiting ] .' ." 

Iowa. 

Burlington '« 

Carney i« 

Cedar Falls 



Population, 1910. 



Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 



Total. 



34,670 
3,349 

11,537 
5,046 
7,093 
8,033 
4,806 

24,199 
2,665 
3,306 

19,444 



Foreign- 
bom 
white. 



10,441 
1,106 
3,442 
2,512 
294 
2,053 
2,294 
7,211 
1,232 
1,325 
3,325 



Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 



Names furnished. 



9,535 

6,055 
66,950 

7,984 

45, 401 

24,335 

357 

4,046 

1,292 I 
51,678 

7,035 
14,253 
16,069 

2,607 
967 

4,331 



1, 502 
1,098 
8,810 
2,135 
13,828 
4,922 



1,572 



6,900 
2,992 
3,432 
5,624 
1,253 



Total. 



5,877 

478 

1,722 

1,845 

140 

947 

1,284 

4,089 

851 

738 

1,380 



745 
516 
4,661 
1,048 
7,102 
2,537 



Natural- 
ized. 



2,483 
251 
888 
60 
31 
515 
413 

2,229 
134 
246 
934 



Decla 
rations. 



381 



644 



tions. i °'a/- 
ants. 



Peti- 
tioners. 



112 



62 



122 



15 



294 



138 



877 



658 



22,476 
5,096 
11,028 
8,634 
6,229 
19,098 
19, 282 
63,933 
16,802 
20, 92.1 
233,650 
17,010 
10, 525 
19, 050 
11,886 
10, 910 
22,324 
53,684 
4,115 
14,895 : 
6,587 

24,324 



977 

451 

812 

102 

1,805 

10,295 

1,636 

7,204 

8,242 

5,553 

19, 767 

719 

1,954 

1,405 

1,803 

687 

1,173 

13,420 

88 

816 

2,888 



3,356 
1,636 
1,705 
3,176 
720 



354 



532 

287 

2,598 

703 

4,094 

1,491 



102 
350 



381 



1,940 
1,112 
1,063 
1,087 
389 



367 



217 



423 

255 



26 
107 



145 



173 

85 



450 



99 



548 ! 
248 i 
409 i 
58 1 
937 

6,638 
893 

3,785 ; 

5,693 

3,131 

10, 407 

389 

1,083 
777 i 
977 
363 I 
599 I 

6,787 

51 

438 

1,715 ! 



255 

151 

241 

31 

171 

951 

437 I 

2,459 

1,008 

1,022 

6,088 

236 

522 

414 

346 

211 

320 

2,226 

17 

321 

463 



188 

6,543 

131 

599 



1,227 
55 
277 
179 



142 



37 



23 
310 

40 
391 



332 



18 

55 

1,111 

29 

163 



13 
103 



514 

98 

35 

1,402 

108 

312 

2 

61 

132 
63 



30 
164 



3,938 I 2,037 1,283 



5,012 753 I 

> Includes aotivities at Rockdale. 
» Includes activities at Utica. 
' Includes activities at Silvis. 

* Includes activities at Bush and Hearst, 
includes activities at Cherry, Dalzell, Depue 

Ladd, Marquette, and Seatonville. 

• Includes astivities at Georgetown. 

' Includes activities at Lapel, Middletown. and 
Pendleton. 



356 



261 



83 



106 

1 

31 



23 



155 



Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 



43 



130 



3 
12 

6 
61 
40 

1 

4 



45 

7 

4 

28 

25 



308 

13 

22 

665 

84 

162 

4 

9 

12 

30 

2 

17 

86 

1 

1 

68 



8 Includes activities at Indiana Harbor. 
3 Includes activities at Areola, Huntertown, and 
New Haven. 

1° Includes activities at Cambridge City and 
Centerville. 
" Includes activities at Center Township. 
'2 Includes activities at West Burlington. 
"Includes activities at Delaware, Bloomfield, 
Enterprise, Oralabor, Saylor, and Swanwood. 



12 

Table 24. — Foreign-horn white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns — 
Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


Iowa— Continued. 
Cedar Rapids i 


32,811 
5,892 
4,884 


5,321 
821 

754 


2,619 
455 
425 


1,531 
289 
183 


201 
19 
29 


57 
5 

7 


6 

48 


36 


26 


Charles City 


2 
















25,577 
29,292 
43,028 
86,368 
2,573 
38,494 
15,543 


4,880 
4,268 
8,101 
10,395 
175 
6,089 
2,188 


2,615 
2,309 
4,132 
5,231 
93 
3,220 
1,199 


1,697 
1,302 
2,597 
2,807 
54 
2,281 
609 


88 
126 
219 
392 


32 
49 
65 
109 


89 
34 
11 
42 


...... 

22 
39 


1 


Council Bluffs 


10 


Davenport 2 


22 


Des Moines 


35 


Valley Junction 








514 

7 

2 

190 

25 

6 

58 


14 

6 

1 

....... 

2 
1 
3 


9 


Fort Dodge 


95 
36 


24 
9 


4 


TTigh Ttrirlffi 














1 


Mason City 


11,230 
16, 178 
2,663 
6,028 


1,508 

2,145 

522 

929 


823 

1,089 

283 

565 


322 

713 

99 

202 


95 
35 

45 
58 


si 

13 
27 
16 


6 


Muscatine « 


2 


Mystic 


2 


Oelwein 


1 


Scandia 




Sioux City < 


47.828 
26,693 


10,452 
2,706 


5,781 
1,494 


2,408 
650 


388 


76 


59 
302 


36 
6 


50 


Waterloo ^ . . 


4 


Yoder 








Kansas. 
Atchison 


16,429 


1,084 


526 


289 


46 


15 


10 


8 


4 


Barber 




Caney 


3,597 


210 


113 


67 


29 


11 








Capaido 








Caronae 










36 


11 


3 


2 


1 


Cherryvale 


4,304 
250 


176 


108 


29 




Dearihg 












Edson 








1 

7 


2" 


8 






Fort Scott 


10,463 


386 


209 


106 






Franklin 


165 
186 
17 


3' 


1 


Frontenac . . . 


3,396 


1,572 


798 


253 






4 


Gross 








Horton 


3,600 
82,331 
12,463 
14, 755 


235 

10,344 

463 

1,137 


137 

5,710 

259 

588 


66 

2,427 

133 

322 


21 

942 

9 

311 


11 

72 

1 

61 






Kansas City 


282 
1 

182 
74 
9 
2 


16 

1 

2 

1 


32 


Parsons 


1 


Pittsburg 


9 


Radley 


2 


Eingo 
















Roseland 


396 

9,688 














Salina 


740 


376 


222 


18 


7 






Skidmore 


1 






South Radley 


















Topeka 


43.684 
52, 450 

5,420 

35, 099 

223, 928 

30,309 

1,677 
2,942 
3,609 


4,153 
2,855 

69 

936 

17, 436 

3,405 


2,123 
1,591 

40 

509 

8,334 

1,534 


1,115 
653 

12 

330 

5,704 

1,009 


91 
103 


13 
40 


16 
124 


11 
11 


14 


Wichita 


6 


Kentucky. 
DanAalle 




Lexington 












Louisville 


284 
53 

32 


90 
23 

11 


13 


19 


is 


Newport 




Louisiana. 
Amite' 








Hammond 


154 
150 


72 
72 


18 
8 




1 


1 


Kentwood 










Natalbany 












New Orleans* 


339,075 
28, 015 


27,686 
1,004 


13,486 
525 


6,138 
248 


1,217 
105 


328 
10 


95 


96 


85 


Shreveport 





1 Includes activities at Benson, Cedar Heights, 
Janesville, New Hartford, and Parkersburg. 

2 Includes activities at Bettendorf and Rocking- 
ham. 

* Includes activities at Blue Grass and Fairpon. 

< Includes activities at Leeds, Riverside, and 
South Sioux City. 

6 includes activities at Waterloo East Side and 
Waterloo West Side. 



5 Includes activities at Cokedale, East Mineral, 
Hamilton, and Mackie. 

' Includes activities at Gulette, Independence, 
Roseland, and Shiloh. 

8 Includes activities at Algiers, Amesville, Chef 
Manteur, Gentilly, Gretna, I.akeview, Lee, Little 
Woods, McDonoghville, Milneburg, and Pontchar- 
train Grove. 



13 



Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or toivns — 
Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Populat 


on, 1910. 


Foreign-born 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
bom 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi. 
dates' 
wives. 


Maine. 
Auburn 


15,064 

13,211 
2,864 

24,803 
9,396 

17, 079 
6,621 
1,867 

26,247 
4,116 
6,317 
3,555 

58, 571 
7,471 
8.281 
5,179 
6,777 
6,583 
5,341 

11,458 

558,485 

13.026 
5,112 

11,187 
8,536 

16, 215 
5,542 

18, 650 

9,407 

070, 585 

15,507 
7,688 

56, 878 

27,792 

104,839 

4,797 

32, 452 

25,401 

13,075 
2,585 
6,421 
9,284 
2,152 
4,267 
3,363 


2,574 
2,639 
309 
4,280 
1.315 
6,761 
1,539 


1,090 
1,022 

181 
1.883 

526 
2,537 

602 


454 
271 
74 
610 
210 
823 
270 


209 
226 


70 
38 


3 
10 


6 
4 


4 


Augusta 


1 


HaUowell 




liangor 


364 

84 


.52 
30 


9 
8 
4 
14 


7 
7 
3 
3 


11 


Bath 


4 


Biddeford 


7 


Brunswick ' 






8 


Foxcroft 








Lewiston 


9,418 

988 

1,383 

868 

12, 078 

1,003 

1,744 

1.147 

2,634 

1,168 

783 

2,688 

77,043 

5,097 
661 
2,758 
1,638 
4,453 
1,572 
4,661 
1,908 
240, 722 
4.442 
2,317 

15,425 
8,345 

34,608 
1,156 

13,748 

10,036 
4,798 
520 
1,649 
2,718 


3.502 
427 
664 
449 

5.023 
415 
748 
524 

1,280 
463 
346 

1,138 

33,638 

2,042 

259 
1,157 

779 
1.919 

639 
2,174 

790 
103, 160 
2,077 
1,623 
7,033 
2,307 
14,636 

489 
5,883 
4,330 
1,916 

217 

738 
1,206 


1,406 
165 
118 
63 

2,222 
147 
347 
166 
192 
158 
144 
454 

16,643 

766 

83 

602 

176 

808 

275 

808 

385 

47, 791 

905 

482 

3.167 

1,274 

7,162 

252 

2,133 

1,280 

1,029 

85 

292 

520 






.. 9 


29 
3 
1 
1 

71 


18 


I>isbon 








3 


Old Town 








1 


Orono 








1 


Portland 




758 


437 




108 


94 


South Portland 




Westbrook 












Presque Isle 


560 
111 

76' 

3,674 


35 
51 

ii' 

860 








Rumford' 








Saco 


2 


1 




Skowhegan 




WaterviUe'... 


13 
221 

10 
3 

24 
8 

32 
4 

52 


6 

212 

2 
...... 

6 
16 

6 
23 


6 


Maryland. 
Baltimore * 


230 


Massachusetts. 
Adams 


8 


Amherst 


2 


Arlington 


20 


Athol 






7 


Attleboro 






31 


Belmont 






8 


Beverly* 






22 


Danvers 








Boston 6 

Hyde Park 


16, 169 


4,148 


1,172 


625 


697 


Bridge water 


■""■725' 


""253' 


10 
28 
87 
126 
7 
83 
22 
6 
4 
4 
9 


8 

106 

19 

62 

14 

55 

15 

13 

2 

5 

7 


7 


Brockton 

Brookline 


65 
29 


Canton 

Chelsea 


898 



214 


85 
13 
66 


Chicopec 






19 


CUnton ' 


10 


Cohasset 






4 


Concord ' 






4 


Dedham 


445 


96 


6 


Douglass 




Dudley 


1,579 
547 


704 
253 


172 
113 












East Bridgcwater ' 








1 


1 


East Falmouth 










Easthampton "> 

Easton 


8,524 
5,139 
5,183 


3,077 
1,020 


1,227 
698 
470 


404 
380 
141 






2 


9 


g 








Mansfield 












East We5Tnouth . . 






3 

55 
154 


1 

25 
81 




Everett 


33,484 
119,295 
2,798 
2,928 
4,032 


9,607 

50,874 

706 

591 

1,069 


4,085 

20,181 

295 

261 

497 


2,228 
8,368 

102 
68 

175 






34 


Fall River I' 


2,445 


705 


116 


Somerset 




Westport 

Tiverton, R. I 















1 





' Includes activities at Topsham. 

2 Includes activities at Mexico, Smithville, and 
Virginia. 

3 Includes activities at Winslow. 

* Includes activities at Arlington, Brooklyn, Ca- 
tons\ille, Curtis BayjDundalk, Franklin ville, Gar- 
denville, Govans, Hamilton, Hillsdale, Mount 
Wmans, Orangeville, Roland Park, Sparrows 
Point, Towson, and West Arlington. 

' Includes activities at Hamilton and Wenham. 



* Includes activities at Allston, Brighton, Charles 
town, Dorchester, East Boston, Maltapan, Mount 
Hope, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, and 
AVest Roxbury. 

' Includes activities at Boylston, Lancaster, and 
Sterling. 

s Includes activities at Bedford, Carlisle, and 
Lincoln. 

9 Includes activities at Elmwood and Westdale. 
1" Includes activities at Southampton. 
" Includes activities at Swansea. 



14 

Table 24. — Foreign-horn white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns — 
Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanlss occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-born 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


Massachusetts— Contd. 
Falmouth 


3,144 

37,826 

12, 948 

5,641 

2,696 

14,699 

24, 398 

2,673 

10,427 

2,326 

44,115 

9,894 

4.965 

57,730 

6,743 

5,777 

85,892 

17,580 

4,918 

106,294 

3,461 

3,750 

4,948 


544 
13,611 
3,156 
1,504 

537 
5,312 
7,484 

847 
1,918 


245 

5,933. 

1,341 

722 

216 

2,703 

3,980 

437 

916 


79 
1,950 
557 
248 
112 
762 
1,743 
165 
366 












Fitchburg 






9 

24 

1 


13 

5 


14 


Framingham i 






9 


Franklin 2 






1 
















5 
9 


14 
13 


11 


Gloucester 2 






14 


Manchester 








Greenfield « 


232 


41 


7 


13 


14 


Hanover = 




Haverhill s 


11,153 

2,635 

943 

23, 238 
1,790 
2,261 

41,319 
4,875 
1,143 

43,457 
1,035 
1,670 
2,309 

27,344 


4,936 

1,140 

388 

9,457 

863 

872 

17,414 

2,0o8 

517 

18,191 

482 

872 

799 

12 03fi 


1,915 
463 
153 

3,765 
293 
175 

6,588 
645 
242 

7,028 

231 

89 

158 

4,931 
416 
250 

2,941 
718 
810 
349 

1,195 
922 
674 
156 
375 
499 
268 

5,441 
116 
173 
569 

1,829 

1,266 
983 
508 
503 






33 


30 


22 


Amesbury 














5 

70 
4 


3 

47 

3 

3 

104 

7 


6 


Holyoke ' 






47 


Hudson 8 






3 








2 




3,072 


799 


185 
25 


141 




19 


Lexington n 








Lowell 






114 


134 


166 


Dracut 








Tewksbury 
























Lynn 12 


89,336 
8,047 
6.204 






24.7 


120 


143 




1,760 1 '751 
1.369 I .580 








Swompscott 












Maiden 44,404 13.4^0 ' 5.404 






47 


67 


63 


Mehose 15.715 


3,091 
3,344 
3,002 
5,126 
4,501 
4,331 
904 
1,936 
1.997 


1,182 

1,508 

1,403 

2,134 

1,776 

2,039 

399 

923 

926 

644 

17,151 

488 

538 

1,215 

4,061 

2,561 

2,130 

1,133 

1,619 










14,579 






13 
11 
58 
17 
16 


15 
6 
44 
33 
39 


19 




6,390 
23, 150 
11,448 
13, 055 

4,758 
6,866 
9,866 






9 


Medford 






63 








40 


Milford 






22 










Montague 








4 

4 

4 

190 


4 


Natick 






4 
7 
76 


4 


Needham 


5,026 1 1^584 
96, 652 ! 42, 625 
4, 378 1 . 072 






6 


New Bedford 1' 






158 










Fairhaven 


5,122 
14,949 
39, 806 
22,019 
19,431 
9,562 
8,807 


1,232 
3,007 
11, 191 
6,046 
4,880 
2,490 
3,560 




















12 
21 
8 
9 
12 
3 
1 
42 
9 
25 
22 


6 








13 

4 
3 
20 


18 


North Adams 






7 


Northampton 


299 


58 


6 


North Attleboro is 


21 


Northbridge 






2 


North Easton 








1 




8,014 

8,610 

15, 721 

32, 121 

3, 568 

3,060 

12, 141 

32, 642 

18,219 


2,555 
3,074 
5,341 
6,744 
462 
754 
3,722 
10, 875 


1,289 
1,354 
2,931 
3,176 
199 
350 
1,621 
4.996 


521 

282 

^ 783 

1,549 

138 

178 

463 

2,367 

1,407 






9 
10 
10 
32 


28 


Palmer ' s 






14 


Peabody 






9 


Pittsfield 17 


763 


171 


27 






Lenox 


















10 

86 

78 


1 
51 
48 


1 


Qulncy 






72 


Revere 


5,331 ! 2,400 






71 



1 Includes activities at Ashland, Hopkinton, and 
Sherborn. 

2 Includes activities at Wrentham. 

3 Includes activities at Essex. 

* Includes activities at Deerfield. 
s Includes activities at Norwell and Pembroke. 
8 Includes activities at Merrimac, Mass., and New- 
ton and Piaistow, N. H. 

7 Includes activities at South Hadley Falls and 
Willimansett. 

8 Includes activities at Berlin, Bolton, and Stow. 



3 Includes activities at Hamilton, Rowley, and 
Topsfield. 
1" Includes activities at Lunenberg. 

11 Includes activities at Bedford and Burlington. 

12 Includes activities at Nahant. 

13 Includes activities at Northboro and Southboro. 
11 includes activities at Acushnet and Freetown. 
■6 Includes activities at Plainville. 

16 Includes activities at Bondsville, Thomdyke, 
and Three Rivers. 
" Includes activities at Hinsdale and Lanesboro. 



15 

Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns — 
Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


Massachusetts— Contd. 


6,928 

5,455 
12. 895 

4,211 
43,697 

1,946 
77,236 


1,110 

885 


502 


276 
153 
509 
200 
2,443 








1 
















2,312 ; 1-099 












1,029 
13,539 


478 
5,696 


^ 


1 

37 

1 

101 






Salem 






41 
2 

77 


31 








1 


Somerville . . . 


20,751 


8,814 


4,263 






83 










Southbndge s 


12,592 

88. 926 

3,501 

7,090 

6,316 

34,259 

4,671 

11,404 

5,818 

4,892 

3,803 

27, 834 

12,875 

11,509 

5,413 

10,044 

9,224 

7,292 

9,309 

10, 132 

15,308 

145,986 

5,833 


4,315 
22,999 
S26 
1,362 
1,439 
9,779. 
1,243 


1,943 
9,942 
378 
615 
666 
4,206 
fiOl 


657 

4,182 

155 

316 

266 

1,506 

144 

662 

191 

230 

125 

1,525 

804 

080 

234 

588 

372 

218 

306 

551 

1,0(3 

9,126 

245 






2 
152 


23 
83 


21 


Springifield 3 


2,818 


595 


120 














4 i' 


5 


Stougliton 






2 
13 


4 
22 

2 
12 


4 








23 








2 


Wakefield < 


3,128 i 1,280 
1,012 421 






31 


24 


Reading 








Walpole '., 


1,306 
098 
7,C83 
4,057 
4,090 
1,559 
4,401 
2,100 
1, 108 
2,480 
2,093 
4,039 
48,492 

775 


035 

377 

3,008 

1,773 

1,839 

550 

2,173 

943 

481 

1,027 

819 

2,006 

22, 810 

421 






4 


7 


9 


Foxboro 








Waltham 






21 

14 

1 

ll 

4 
2 
4 
15 
21 
101 

5 


11 

10 

10 

1 

10 

1 

3 
10 
11 

7 
153 

3 


17 


"Watertown. 






10 


Webster 






7 


Wellesley 







2 


Westfleld... 






11 


West Springfield 

Wliitman 






3 






3 


Winchesler. 








Winthrop 






12 


Woburn 6 






13 


Worcester 


3,283 


704 


146 


Michigan. 
Albion 


2 


Alpha ' 








Baltics. 
















1 


1 


Battle Creek.. ' 


25,267 
45, 166 


2,616 

11,027 

351 

1,187 

2,144 


1,259 

5,213 

130 

538 

1,200 


570 

4,009 

00 

340 

427 


144 
205 


26 
141 


9 
48 


6 ! 6 


Bay City 


07 


63 


Belding 

Benton Harbor' 

Bessemer 

Calumet i".. 


4,119 
9,185 
4,58! 
"20,097 
8,-537 
4,211 
3,775 
465,766 




174 
420 
632 


01 
117 
200 


15 
47 
90 


is 
11 

65 


25 
17 

77 


I^aimum 


2,617 

1,953 

1,501 

156,505 


1,263 

1,151 

818 

79,323 


825 

357 

358 

32,891 














Crystal Falls 


274 
14,229 


73 
2,663 


12 
1,909 


1 


Detroit 

Diorile. . . 


054 


740 


Dodgeville 


















Bowagiac 

Escanaba'2 


5,088 
13, 194 
38, 550 

4,211 


471 
4,095 
6, 062 
1,423 
1,364 
28,335 


203 

2,230 

3,628 

753 

665 

1,3,089 


88 

1,365 

1,579 

352 

393 

7,758 


12 
105 
811 


6 
48 
83 


....... 

05 

56 

7 

124 


3 



22 


3 

7 


Flint 

O ladstone . 


12 


Grand Haven w 

Grand Rapids 


5,850 
112, 571 


92 

877 


40 
209 


2 

174 

1 

31 


2 
155 


G wynn " 




Hancock '■' 


8,981 


3,162 j 1,611 


780 






46 


34 


Hemlock 








Highland Park'? 


4,120 
3,559 


915 1 404 
1,261 i 568 


247 
202 






8 


10 


12 


Hamtramck 









' Includes activities at Pigeon Cove. 

2 Includes activities at Charlton and Sturbridge. 

3 Includes activities at Long Meadovi\ 
< Includes activities at Lynnfield. 

1= Includes activities at Norfolk. 

« Includes activities at Burlington and Wilming- 
ton. 

' Includes activities at Dunn Mine Location. 

* Includes activities at Atlantic Mine, South 
Range, and Trimountain. 

s Includes activities at Coloma and Milburg. 



'I* Includes activities at Centennial, Centennial 
Heights, Kearsarge, Osceola, Tamarack, and Wol- 
verine. 

" Exclusive of Laurium and I\cd Jacket. 

'- Includes activities at North Escanaba and Wells. 

13 Includes activities at Ferrysburg and Spring 
Lake. 

'^ Includes activities at Austin and Princeton. 

1 j Includes activities at Franklin Mine and Quincy 
Mine. 

'8 Includes activities at Greenfield. 



Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns — 

Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-born 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
cotmty July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


Michigaji— Continued. 

Holland 


10, 490 

5,030 

9,216 

2,450 

12,821 

12,448 

31,433 

39,437 

31, 229 

3,154 


2,465 

744 

3,741 


1,162 
366 

1,878 


764 

268 

1,208 






17 
1 

16 
14 
78 
29 
19 
28 
43 


4 

3 

5 

27 

31 

3 

12 

27 

11 


2 


Ionia 


82 
115 


17 
90 


1 


Iron Mountain 


11 




19 


Iron wood. 


6,234 
4,732 
4,307 
6,857 
3,973 
192 


3,651 
2,478 
2,182 
3,149 
2,006 
97 


1,259 
1,550 
1,180 
1,505 
1,029 
55 






48 








13 


Jackson 


254 
187 
524 


32 
74 
42 


19 


Kalamazoo ' . . 


29 


Lansings 


15 


St. Johns 




Lorettos 






2 
7 

12 
3 

"22 
32 






Manistee < 


12,381 
11,503 


3,6i6 
3,574 


1,828 
1,930 


1,480 
1,117 


39 
249 
39 
53 
216 


21 

135 
21 
13 
34 






Marquette 


10 


9 


Mohawk 6 




Monroe ^ 


6,893 

24,062 

8,460 

9,639 


828 
6, 252 
3,862 
1,352 


458 
3,092 
2,207 

674 


188 

2,070 

869 

398 


2 
10 

48 
5 
8 


2 


Muskegon ' 


10 


Negaunee ... . 


46 


Owosso 8 


98 


IS 


4 


Painesdale 


7 


Pontiac 


14,532 
18, 863 
4,163 
50,510 


2,683 
5,979 
1,227 
11,701 


1,290 

2,541 

581 

5,584 


619 
1,917 

284 
3,799 


274 
187 


48 
24 






Port Huron 9 


5' 

42 
12 


1 

2 
14 

8 


1 




3 


Saginaw " 

Saginaw West Side 


339 


108 


36 
11 


St. Charles 


1,451 
891 
1,322 
12,115 
6,230 

6,192 
1,919 
6,960 
5,099 
1,690 
8,526 
1,005 
7,684 














Scottvillo's 


................. 




19 


12 


3 
19 

1 
1 
1 
2 
' 3 
13 






Stambaugh '3.. 








7 
1 
1 

2 

8 
4 
4 
9 
7 
7 

25 
12 


3 


Traverse City 

Ypsilanlin 

Minnesota. 
Albert Lea i» 


2,009 
614 

1,192 


1,042 
251 

591 


634 
155 

337 


16 
164 

61 


9 

98 

44 


1 
1 


Aurora i6 


6 


Austin 17 

Bemidji 

BJwabik is 


1,128 
1,056 


6i5 
670 


342 
401 


41 
90 


is 

76 


2 
2 
9 


Brainerd '9 


2,164 


1,122 


796 


58 


38 


5 


Rnhl 


4 


Chisholm^o 


4,469 


2,936 


551 






13 
2 


27 


Clementson 






7 


Cloquet 


7,63! 
1,613 


2,959 


1,794 


753 


61 


24 




Coleraine 21 


5 

7 

146 


4 

10 

140 

3 

4 


2 


Crosby 22 












7 


Duluth 


78,466 


30,652 


17,663 


8,359 


3,360 


703 


140 


Dunbar 


2 


East Grand Forks 

Grand Forks, N. Dak. 
Ely 23 


2,533 
12,478 
3,572 
7,036 


773 
3,607 
1,713 
3,761 


422 
1,756 

995 
2,328 


220 
929 
377 
679 


63 


44 


1 


2 






8 
13 


15 
16 


12 


Eveleth 






14 



1 Includes activities at Comstock, Galesburg, 
Plainwell, Schoolcraft, and Vicksburg. 

2 Includes activities at Bath, DeWitt, Dimon- 
dale, Haslett, Holt, and Masons. 

3 Includes activities at Waucedah. 

* Includes activities at East Lake, File City, and 
Oak Hill. 

'' Includes activities at Ahmeek and AUouez. 

6 Includes activities at Erie and La Salle. 

' Includes activities at Fruitport and Muskegon 
Heights. 

8 Includes activities at Corunna, Morrice, and 
Perry. 

9 Includes activities at North Port Huron, Salt 
Block, and Upton Works. 

10 Includes activities at Ecorse, Ford City, and 
Navarre. 

11 Includes activities at Birch Run, Bridgeport, 
Burt, Carrollton, Chesaning, Fosters, Freeiand, 
Merrill, Oakley, Swan Creek, and Zilwaukee. 



'2 Includes activities at Amber and Custer. 

13 Includes activities at New Caspian and Palatka. 

i< Includes activities at Saline and Wayne. 

15 Includes activities at Alden, Armstrong, Clarks 
Grove, Glenville, Hayward, and Manchester. 

16 Includes activities at Adriatic, Messaba, and 
Stevens. 

" Includes activities at Brownsdale, Lansing, 
Lyle, Oakland, and Waltham. 

18 Includes activities at Pineville. 

19 Includes activities at Barrows. 

20 Includes activities at Hartley, Monroe Loca- 
tion, Myers, and Shenango. 

21 Includes activities at Bovey, Calumet, Marble, 
and Taconite. 

22 Includes activities at Deerwoodandlronton. 

23 Includes activities at Winton. 



17 



Table 24.— Foreign-bom white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by States and citmor towns- 
Vjontinuecl. 

(Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-born 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalisation 
papers Pled in 
county Julv 1. 
1916, to June 30 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




TotaL 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. Naltu--^! 


Decla- 
rations 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners 


! Cnndi- 

dates' 

■ wives. 


Minnesota— Continued. 
Fairmont 


2,958 
9,001 
6,887 
1,700 

"""2," 230 
8,832 

""i.'is?" 

695 
1 


392 
1,443 
2,418 


198 

695 

1,288 


1G9 

445 
494 


40 
40 
73 






1 
4 

9 
11 

3 




Faribault 


20 1 2 

17 i 5 


2 


Ferjrus Falls' 


2 


Ginjrrt^ 




1 4 

13 

1 2" 

' 13 

n 

1 2 


8 


Gracoton 

Grand Rapids 


i" 1 


""m 


57 


15 


HibbingJ 


4,342 2,879 '/SO 




Homestead 

International Falls 


90' 


30 


7 5 


Kcewatin < 


1 


Kettle River 

Kinney » 

Lin ford 


• 






61 ♦ 


l.ittle Fails .■.'.■ !!."!;;.■; "*"6"678" 
l.itilcMarais 


""i>366"| 638 522" 


31 " 


26' 


4' 


i 


....... 


Mankalos 

St. Peter 


10,3a5 
4,176 
301,408 
3,056 
4,840 
1,343 
2,080 
5,658 


2,070 1 1,018 m 

1,260 I 635 254 

85,938 45,159 23.462 

571 i 304 177 

1,384 1 751 458 


9i' 


....... 


9' 


6' 


4 


Montevideo 

Moorhead 

Mountain Iron s 


2,473 
36 
51 


841 
15 
23 


480 
1 


356 

1 


355 
2 


Nashwaiik [ 




i 






4 
5 
4 


5 
4 
2 


7 


Owatonna ^ 


1,104 


520 


400 


36 


9 


3 


Rjsev 


1 


St. (loud »« 

St. Paul 11 


i6,666 
214, 744 


2,024 
56, .521 


1,103 
29,048 


675 
17,071 


■" 




5 
146 


4 
140 


5 


1,709 


483 


Section Thirty 


126 


South St Paul 

St'llwaloris 


4,5i6 
10.198 


1,723 
2,774 


934 
1,578 


423 
1,151 


24 
25 


15 
19 


2 
3 


8 
4 


5 


Tofte 

Trout Lake 


5 


Two Harbors.". .. ....'.'.'. 

Virginia i« 

Winger 


4,990 . 
10,473 ! 

728 
18,583 


......... 

5,340 


"'"i,"265' 
3,397 


46fi' 

958 


""297' 



37' 


...... 

17 


9' 

27 


4 

22 


Winona 

Williams 


3 858 


1,929 


'"i,"586" 


60 


19 


...... 


4' 


2 


Wilmar 

WrenshallH 


4, 135 1 
755 1 

( 


1,281 


631 


434 


34 


28 


::::::: 


4 




Wright :.. 




Mississippi. 
Uncnville 


9,610 
6,386 

1 

8,475 1 

'248,'38i" ' 
9,859 1 
5,9fi0 
77,403 

687,029 ' 


296 
269 

375 

'" 25,327' 

412 

470 

8,113 

lai 7nfi 


185 
164 

208 

"13,052' 
203 
228 
4,281 

C3,440 
267 1 


86 
64 . 

162 

' '6," 95.3" ■ 
116 . 
173 . 
2.256 

33,081 \ 
191 i. 












'^iilfport 

Missouri. 

Lapt- "lirardeau 

liasco 1. 

Kansas City w i 

Independence 

Rosedale, Kans ' 

St. Joseph i 

St. T oiiis.... 1 






6 . 






7 
1,03b' 


2 
'"264" 






184 1 101 


' i56 










246 


39 


476 
1,038 


5 
377 


11 


Maplewood 


4,976 ; 505 
17,822 '■ 801 




612 




413 1 225 ! 


2 1. 


1 


8 ! 


I 1 


3 



' Includes activities at Battle Lake Pelican 
Rapids, Rotbsay, and Underwood. 

* Include.s activities at Klba, Genoa Mining Lo- 
cation, McKinley, and Sparta. 

3 Includes aetiVitie.s at Alice, Brooklyn, Carson 
Lake, Dupond, Glenn, Kittsville, Lamborton, 
Latonia, Mace, Mahoning, Mabel nill, Mitchell, 
Morton, Penobscot, Pool, and Stcvenpon. 

* Includes activities at Bennet Mine, Bray Loca- 
tJon, and St. Paul Lo(>ation. 

' Includes activities at Lucknow, Sharon, and 
Spina. 

* Includes activities at Eagle Lake, Ka.sota, Lake 
Ci^stal, and North Mankato. 

41W4— 18 3 



' Includes activities at Robbinsdalo and St. Louis 
Park. 

« Includes activities at Costin, Ellis, Hopper 
Kinross, Leonida.s .Mine, and Parkville ' 

^/iP^''^"^.*";^ activltie.s at Bixby, Havana, Hope, 
Mcdford, Menden, Morton, and Pratt. 

"Includes activities at Sauk Rapids and White 
Park. 

" Includes activities at North St. Paul 

'2 Includes activities at Oak Park and South Still- 
water. 

" Includes activities at Franklin and Northsidc. 

'< Includes activities at Banker, Carlton, Uuson 
and Winfate. 

'^ Includes activities at North Kansas City. 



Table 24.— Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization •papers filed in 

fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or town^r- 

Continued. ' 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Forciftn-born 

white males of 

voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county .luly 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


Stv. P«t'- 
ants. t'"'^'^^- 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


dontana. 
Great Falls 


13,948 
2,992 
4,697 

12,869 
4,800 


3,662 

411 

852 

2,997 

2,099 


1,943 

219 

555 

2,020 

1,314 


1,018 
123 

166 
785 
420 


446 
137 
192 
87 
63 

24 
78 
80 
17 
227 
45 
2,315 


33 
28 
14 
7 
12 

10 
47 
12 
13 
98 
17 
386 


""es" 

61 

3' 


16 
4 

10 
1 
8 


» 




11 


Miles City 


4 


Missoula 






7 


Nebraska. 






8,718 
10,326 

1,778 
43,973 

0,025 
124,096 

3,170 
20,259 

2,152 

1,219 

10,867 
2,500 

11,780 
7,529 

21,497 
3,062 

13,247 
3,348 


1,369 
1,561 


686 
869 


457 
541 


81 
90 


2 


2 


Grand Island 


2 






Lin coin 


7,200 

799 

27,068 

484 

7,834 


3,101 

422 

13, 788 

237 

4,377 


1,372 
162 

7,079 
155 

1,956 


25 


18 


29 


Norfolk 




Omaha ^ 


919 


109 


574 




















89 
63 

95 


29 
26 

23 


30 


1 


1 


Wilber 










Nevada. 


2,059 
522 

5,082 
1,819 
4,309 
878 
3,290 
1,340 


1,239 
338 

2,378 
731 

1,984 
358 

1,475 
497 


691 
113 

768 
298 
962 
230 

747 
100 


140 


13 


9 






Nevsr Hampshire. 
Berlin' 


282 

53 

310 


65 
23 
50 


i" 

9 


36 

7 

21 


26 




7 




14 






Dover * 


137 


39 


4 


11 


2 






East Jaflfrey 






2 
1 

19 






Franklin ^ 


0,132 

1,895 

5,718 

70,063 

2,579 

26.005 

11,239 

2,117 

1,806 

46,150 

4.390 

55,545 


1,613 


596 


262 










Jailrey 


103 


17 


2 

1 

108 


15 




901 
29,092 

515 
8,957 
2,138 


395 

11,486 

265 

3.748 

975 


153 

4,506 

66 

1,190 

514 


1 


Manchester '.... 


694 


286 


40 


84 












43 


40 
2 


49 


Portsmouth 


120 


02 


1 


Salem ' 




Tilton 








95 

477 


10 
138 


2 
45 


58 


3 


New Jersey. 
Atlantic City » 


6,400 

304 

20,522 


2,996 

170 

10,109 


l,i7or 

56 
3,364 


44 












69 
6 
2 


110 
3 
9 


112 








fi 


Bloomfleld 


15,070 
34,371 
4,930 
4,250 
3,970 


3,359 
5,677 
1,090 
349 
1,242 


1,544 

2,079 

505 

162 

606 


808 

1,187 

207 

63 

212 






7 










Boonton 






C 
3 
5 






Bordentown i' 


244 
289 
120 


64 
49 
17 


5' 


2 




4 








3,041 
7,468 
2,983 
3, 163 
4,275 
3.807 
3,448 
73,409 
9,924 
4,731 
















1,313 
1,133 
1,215 
1,187 
1,272 
1,365 
23,894 
2,500 


667 
732 
546 
561 
591 
618 
11,713 
950 


3S5 
169 
255 
297 
331 
199 
5,036 
422 






10 


4 


4 










East Newark 






1 


2 


3 


East Rutherford 12 
















. 




WallinHon.. . 












Elizabeth 


1,757 


494 


77 
15 


68 
2 


80 




6 


Florence 


1 





« Includes activities at Glengarry, Ililger, Moore, 
and South Lewistown. 

' Insludes activities at Florence. 

8 Includes activities at Gorham and Milan. 

« Includes activities at Penacook. 

* Includes activities at Durham, Elliot, Madbury, 
and Rollinsford. 

« Includes activities at Northfleld and Sanborn- 
ton. 



' Includes activities at Auburn, Bedford, Bow, 
Candia, Chester. Grasmere, Hookset, and Weare. , ; 

8 Includes activities at Hampshire. 
' Includes activities at Ventnor City. 

10 Includes activities at Roebling and White 
House. 

u Includes activities at Bowlbyvllle, Denvllle, 
Kenvil, Mill Brook, Mine Ilill, Rockaway, aaa 
Succasunna. 

** Includes activities at Lyndhurst. 



19 

Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed ir\ 
fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by Slates and cities or towns — 
Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



state and dty or town. 



Wew Jersey— Continued. 

Hackensack » 

Harrison 

Hoboken 

[rvington 

Jersey City 

Kearney 2 

Leonia* 

Edgewater 

Fort Lee 

Long Branch 

Montclair < 

West Orange 

Morristown , 

Newark 

New Brunswick 

Orange 

Park Ridge 

Passaic 

Paterson = 

Haledon 

Hawthorne 

Prospect Park 

Perth Amboy « 

Plainfield 

Rah way 

Red Bank' 

Ridgewood 

Summit s , 

TenaQy 

Town of Union » 

Trenton 

Westfield 

West Hoboken '» 

West New York" 

Guttenberg 

Wood bine 

New Mexico. 

Albuquerque >' 

Santa Fe 

New York. 

Albany ^' 

Albion n 

Amsterdam '* 

Auburn '■' 

Ballston Spa 

Batavia 

Binghamton " 

Buffalo" 

Carthage 

Cohoes 

Corning 

Depew 

Lancaster 



Population, 1910. 



Total. 



14,050 

14,498 

70,324 

11,877 

207, 779 

18,659 

1,486 

2,655 

4,472 

13,298 

21,550 

10,980 

12,507 

347,469 

23,388 

29,030 

1,401 

54, 773 

125,000 

2,500 

3,400 

2,719 

32, 121 

20,550 

9,337 

7,398 

5,416 

7,500 

2,756 

21,023 

96,815 

6, 420 

35, 403 

13,560 

5, 647 

2,399 

11,020 
5,072 

100,253 

5,010 

31, 267 

34,668 

4,138 

11,613 

48, 443 

423, 715 

3,563 

24, 709 

13,730 

3,921 

4,364 



Foreign- 
born 
white. 



3,255 

5, 257 
27,668 

2,480 
77,697 

0,024 



921 
1,264 
2,529 
5,141 
2,850 
2,657 
110,055 
0,048 
8,069 



28, 407 

45,398 

1,041 

953 

1,214 

14,288 

4,144 

1,059 

993 

768 

2,024 

803 

6, 665 

26,310 

1,057 

13,713 

3,556 

2,187 



Forcipn-born 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 



1,269 
196 

18, 165 

995 

10,624 

7,620 

604 

2,133 

7,3S9 

118,444 

4S3 

7,373 

1,795 

1,913 

727 



Total. 



1,473 

2,503 
13,562 

1,192 
37, 707 

2,8S8 



492 
030 
1,250 
2,023 
1,336 
1,115 
49,674 
2,278 
3,660 



10,920 

20, 182 

476 

442 

512 

7,201 

1,670 

840 

457 

316 

769 

362 

3,133 

12,938 

471 

6,177 

1,712 

1,104 



624 
108 

8,192 

454 
4,091 
3,788 

300 

1,026 

3,310 

50,337 

206 
2,990 

890 
1,192 

385 



Natural- 
ized. 



564 
1,040 
5,790 
737 
10,550 
1,430 



138 
325 
496 
771 

C28 

562 

21,427 

846 

1,822 



2,907 

9,817 

288 

218 

228 

2,231 

830 

407 

175 

102 

349 

140 

1,723 

5, 253 

232 

2,905 

920 

452 



430 
70 

4,827 
327 

1,808 

1,743 
152 
474 

1,260 

29,409 

83 

1,005 
486 
223 
175 



Naturalization 
papers Hleil in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 



Decla- 
rations. 



1,347 



C,738 



324 



453 
4,190 
2,166 



1,477 



1,605 



63 

31 
15 

842 
135 
596 
402 
182 
111 
627 
4,897 



220 



Peti- 
tions. 



420 



2,082 



90 



114 

1,470 
451 



C19 



21 

12 
3 

249 
45 
86 
89 
51 
25 

106 
1,556 



58 



Names furnished. 



De- 
clar- 
ants. 



28 
39 
92 
58 
2SS 
17 



12 
312 
32 
70 
2 
40 
96 



66 
205 



4 
36 
341 
6 
15 
3 
G 



Peti- 
tioners. 



12 
39 
100 



305 
31 



11 

272 
44 
39 



53 
157 



46 
204 
3 
49 
25 



99 
6 

26 
41 
2 
5 
43 
309 
5 
8 
18 
10 



Candl- 
dates' 
wives. 



I Includes activities at Bogota, Maywood, North 
Hackensack, Oradell, Teancek. and Woodridge. 

* Includes activities at Arlington and North 
Arlington. 

» Includes activities at Palisade Park and Rldge- 
fleld. 

* Includes activities at Caldwell, Cedar Grove, 
Essex Falls, and Verona. 

6 Includes activities atNorth Paterson and Totowa. 

« Includes activities at Fords, Keasbey, Sewarcn, 
and Woodbridge. 

' Includes activities at Eatontown, Falrhaven, 
Little Silver, and Shrewsbury. 

* Includes activities at Chatham, Millburn, New 
Providence, Short mils, and Springfield. 



340 
33 



8 
197 
50 
41 



61 
156 



65 

283 

2 

62 

29 



61 
3 

51 

40 
2 
6 

47 

442 

6 

13 
7 




9 Includes activities at Weehawken. 

10 Includes activities at North Bergen. 

u Includes activities at Union Hill. 

"Includes activities at Baralas, Martinez Town, 
and Old Albuquerque. 

1" Includes activities at West Albany. 

•« Includes activities at Fanchor and Hulherton. 

>> Includes activities at CranesviUe, Fort Johnson, 
and Hagaman. 

i« Includes activities at Aurelius, Fleming, Mel- 
rose Park, Owasco, Port Byron, Sennett, Skan- 
eateles, and Throop. 

" Includes activities at Endicott, Johnson City, 
and Union. 

» Includes activities at Cheektowaga and Sloan. 



20 

Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States or cities or towns— 

Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 



New York— Continued. 
Dunkirk 

Fredonia 

Ellen ville* 

Elmira2 

Elmira Heights 

Geneva 

Gloversville 

Hornell 

Hudson' 

Huntington 

Ithaca 

Jamestown * 

Lansingburg 

Little Falls 

Lockport 

Lyons.. 

Malone 

Mamaroneck 

Meehanicville * 

Medina 6 

Mount Vernon ' 

Tuckahoe 

Newark 

Newburgh 

New Rochelle 

New York 

Niaeara Falls » 

North Tonawanda 

Tonawanda 

Clean 

Oneida 

Oneonta 

Poughkeepsie 

Rochester ' 

Rockviile Center'"... 

Rome 

Schenectady '' 

Scotia 

Shaleton 

Solvay 

Svracuse '^ 

Troy 

Green Island 

Watervliet 

Utica's 

Watertown '■• 

Westbiiry 

White Plains i^ 

Yonkers 

Korth Carolina. 
Concord " 



Population, 1910. 



Total. 



17,221 
5,285 
3,114 
37,176 
2,732 
12,446 
20,042 
13,617 
11,417 
12,004 
14,802 
31,297 



12,273 

17,970 

4,400 

0,467 

5,699 

6,C34 

5,683 

30,919 

2,722 

6,227 

27,805 

28,867 

1,766,883 

30,445 

11,955 

8,290 

14, 743 

8,317 

9,491 

27,936 

218, 149 

3,667 

20,497 

72, 826 

2,957 



Foreign- 
born 
white. 



5,146 
1,187 

316 
5,259 

325 
2,215 
4,008 
1,272 
2,209 



1,589 
10,612 



5,139 
137,249 
76,813 

4,7.37 
15,074 
74,419 
26,730 



15,949 
79, 803 

8,715 



3,915 
3,235 

808 

819 

1,641 

1,343 

1,058 

8,029 

1,140 

759 

4,823 

8,677 

1,927,703 

12,064 

3, 628 

1,854 

2,424 

876 

741 

4,534 

58,993 

420 

4,114 

18,631 

374 



1,683 

30,781 

15, 432 

867 

2.750 
21 ',308 

6,268 



Foreign-bom 
white males ot 
voting age, 1910. 



Total. 



2,548 
536 
157 

2,494 
155 

1,050 

1,777 
627 

1,142 



723 
5,035 



1,832 

1,558 
387 
346 
781 
699 
553 

3,612 
543 
3?5 

2,241 

4,000 
828,793 

5,755 

1,887 
948 

1,184 
422 
428 

2,122 

27,067 

209 

2.254 

9,562 
186 



3,898 
26,590 



21 



946 
14,944 
6,554 

393 
1,226 
9,341 
2,798 



1,914 
12,295 



14 



Natural- 
ized. 



1,067 
268 
112 

1,648 
76 
635 
829 
450 
336 



374 
2,741 



581 
887 
266 
205 
344 
268 
300 

1,950 
202 
176 

1,125 

1,979 
318,091 

2,082 
765 
573 
641 
234 
200 
994 
13,003 
133 
869 

3,856 
105 



342 
7,036 
4,388 
202 
667 
4,326 
1,050 



777 
5,629 



Naturalization 
papers filed in 
countv July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 



Decla- 
rations. 



187 

188 



13S 

3o4 



141 

509 

96 

308 



Peti- 
tions. 



378 
762 
172 
79 



465 



82,009 



410 

99 

47 

504 

2.937 

1,039 



850 



1,395 
357 



1,402 
661 



3,249 



43 
150 

27 
144 



90 
199 
89 
19 



209 



27,077 



22 
15 

168 
891 
294 



275 



347 
115 



274 



1,131 
1 



Names furnished 



De- 
clar- 
ants. 



Peti- 
tioners, 



33 



27 

2,807 

83 

10 



23 



28 

387 

1 



14 
19 
36 
9,162 
130 
5 



45 

384 

4 



88 



50 
12 
1 
33 
145 



Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 



41 



6 
13 

8 
63 



28 
10 
5 



37 



10 
21 
35 
6,192 
120 
5 



34 

392 

5 



88 
35 



64 
25 
1 
37 
118 



' Includes activities at Greenfield and Napanoch. 

» Includes activities at Horseheads and Wells- 
burg. 

3 Includes activities at Stottville. 

* Includes activities at Celeron, Falconer, Frews- 
bure, and Lakewood. 

» Includes activities at Stillwater. 

' Includes activities at Knowlesville and Middle- 
port. 

' Includes activities at Bronxville and Pelham. 

« Includes activities at La Sallo. 

9 Includes activities at Aron de quvit, Brighton, 
Chili, Llarkson,, Gates, Greoee. Hamlin. Henrietta, 
Mendcn, Ogdeu, Parma, PenSeld, Perinton, Pitts- 



ford, Riga, Rush, Sweden, Webster, and Wheat- 
land. 

"> Includes activities at Fast Rockaway, Lyn- 
brook, Malverne, and Oceanside. 

11 Includes activities at Alplaus, Glenville, Nis- 
kayuna, and South Schenectady. 

12 Includes activitiesat East Sycamore, Eastwood, 
Liverpool, and Onondaga Valley. 

13 Includes activities at Capron, Deerfjold, New 
Hartford, New York Mills, and Whitesboro. 

1^ Includes activities at Prownville. 
1" Includes activities at Elmsford, Hartsdale, Ken- 
sieo, Purchase, Scarsdale, and Valhalla. 
16 Includes activities at Kannapolis. 



21 



Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June SO, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns — 
Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



MtMb and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foroi(ni-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1010. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
countv July 1. 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


1 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


North Dakota. 


5,443 
5, 157 
3,678 

749 

14,331 

1,443 

4, ,358 

645 

929 
3, 873 

343 
6,188 

621 


965 
1,236 
1,015 


514 
652 
530 


301 
255 
239 


56 
67 
74 
53 
171 


15 
17 
40 
11 

57 


13 

8 

....... 


4 
5 
9 
1 
21 


3 


Devils Lake 


2 

7 


Ed?e"ev ' 


I 


Fareo.'. 


3,200 


1,669 


1,011 


11 






Jamestown 


878 


426 


203 


97 


25 


2 


5 


4 


Kulm 




LaMonre 
















Mandan 


1,293 


739 


276 


64 


37 












MInot 


1,150 


587 


325 


187 


22 






New Salem 


18 






South Heart 
















VallevCitv 


4,606 
3,124 

69,067 
9,410 
4,020 

15,083 

18,266 
8,122 
3,156 

50,217 

14,508 

.363,591 

560,663 

2,955 

9,179 

15,181 

5,813 

181,511 

3,319 

116,577 

4,972 

14,825 


1,072 
653 

13,241 

2,829 

470 

2,659 

4,710 

872 

332 

8,648 

618 

56, 792 

195,703 

092 

1.418 

3,916 

2,010 

16,285 

1,533 

13,847 

3,866 

3,061 


540 
364 

7,0.51 
1,723 

246 
1,606 
2,382 

489 

181 
5,010 

290 
2-1,723 
94,431 

257 

557 
1,9.38 

911 
8,487 

793 
7,303 
2,814 
1,709 


317 
171 

2,459 

222 

129 

350 

1,108 

255 

85 

2,005 

181 

17,253 

40, 482 

132 

397 


81 

82 

1,1.56 


22 
49 

217 


3 

57 

1,526 


3 


I 


Wir.iston 




Ohio. 
.\.kron *. 


131 


48 


Barberton 










1 




Vl'ianoe 






14 
12 


10 
29 


13 




178 

27 

111 

517 

1 

1,766 

15,040 


66 

6 

45 

131 

1 

544 

2,922 


25 


Bucvrus 






2 
34 

"'335' 
1,055 


6 

60 

1 

257 

1,290 


7 




61 


Chillieothe 


1 




184 


Cleveland * 


1,267 


Cleveland Heiijlits 


East Cle\'e!and 












791 
539 




















Columbus 


4,453 
320 

3,451 
107 
556 


393 


119 


31 


38 
2 
51 
38 
9 


30 




1 


Da\i;on 


477 
1,292 
1,038 


1.39 
.360 
122 


44 
154 
13 


55 


East Youngstown « 


38 
15 


Forsvthe 




Fremont 


9,939 
35,279 
2,665 
3,084 
28,883 
9,133 
4,271 
8,361 
5,501 
13,388 
6,122 


1,0.57 

3,. 309 

647 

261 

10,929 

1,540 
196 

2,502 
595 
752 
179 


.516 

1,703 

375 

158 

6,216 

787 

103 

1,4.37 

294 

379 

88 


385 

1,042 

103 

61 

1,496 

348 

85 

399 

138 

195 

59 


48 
221 


10 
38 


7 
3 
1 
2 


6 
6 
1 


8 


Hamilton ' 


5 




1 




171 


59 






23 
5 


20 


Martins Ferrv 


445 


131 


3 


6 






Niles 


258 
77 
33 


55 
24 

7 


4 
20 
3 


8 
1 
1 


5 


Paiuesxillc 


1 


Piqua * 


2 


















Salem ' 


8,943 
46,921 
22,391 

3,370 

11,894 

168, 497 

11,081 

79,066 


1,2,39 
3,156 
5,214 
1,055 
944 

32,037 
1,362 

24,860 


703 

1,662 

3,103 

606 

455 

15, 826 

667 

14,027 


234 
916 

589 
109 
313 

8,752 

275 

4,268 






48 
4 

14 

12 

8 

323 

4 

91 


3 
5 
12 
1 


3 


Sprin<;fieldi» 


56 
431 


10 
102 


3 


Steuben ville 


9 


Struthers 


7 


Tiflin 


31 

1,887 


10 
328 




Toledo 


186 
2 
47 


182 




1 


Youaestown 




61 



' iQolud^s activities at Berlin, Judd, and Med- 
bury. 
' Includes activities at Kenmore. 

• Includas acti .'ities at New Berlin, North Indus- 
try, and O.m.tburu. 

* Includes aoti /ities at Euclid, Royalton, Shaker 
IIeit;ht.s, and West Park. 

^ In'ludes activities at Amboy. East Connaaut, 
and North Conncaut. 



» Includes activities at Ilazletown and LowcllvlUc. 

' Includes activities at Coke Otto, Fairfield Town- 
ship, St. Clair Township, and Symmes. 

8 Includes activities at Bradford, Covington^ 
Fletcher, Pleasant TTill, and West Milton. 

» Includes activities at Beloit, (Jrccn, and Wash- 
ington /ille. 

1" Includes activities at Cold Springs. 



22 



Table 24. — Foreign-bom white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 

fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns— 

Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



6tate and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county Julv 1, 
1916,toJun(3 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
bom 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candi- 
dates' 
wives. 


Oklahoma. 
Bartlesville ^ - - 


6,181 
3,255 
2,963 
1,671 
4,582 
1,880 
225 
18,182 
2,277 

9,599 
207,214 

51,913 

52, 127 

3,734 

5,285 

3,535 

2,700 

12,191 

5,357 

5,512 

12,837 

19,3.57 

14,544 

20,728 

6,117 

11,800 

9,615 

38.537 

12,845 

5,991 

12,623 

15,727 


199 
556 
411 


128 
305 
225 


79 
143 

55 


20 
2S 
41 
16 
3 


5 
7 
11 
13 
4 


: 


2 


3 
























52 


35 


22 


1 


1 
1 


1 


Lelii^h 2 


1 










1 


1 








412 


245 


105 


2 

13 

184 

42 
28 


1 
1 

41 
383 

24 
41 


1 




13 

130 
1,314 

611 
227 


11 

62 
710 

126 
91 


1 


Oregon. 

. Astoria. 2 

Portland 


4,088 
43,780 

6,234 
5,212 

138 

206 
1,149 

647 
2,851 

365 
2,031 

797 
7,299 
2,180 
3,510 

924 

172 
3,356 
0, 673 
1,587 

569 
2,122 
6,381 


2,562 
25,230 

2,705 

2,757 

76 

117 

612 

337 

1,657 

218 

1,2.58 

378 

4,103 

1,046 

2,0.50 

454 

87 

1,679 

3,476 

793 

283 

1,128 

3,604 


1,172 
11,251 

904 
1,083 
35 
44 
277 
116 
396 
43 
80 
233 
929 
600 
380 
329 

eo 

448 
1,137 
343 
114 
540 
7C0 


15 

284 


Pennsylvania. 


27 


Altoona * 


36 
























6 


3 


4 












464 
71 


88 
16 


14 


5 


8 






West Berwick 

Bethlehem « 








767 


130 


■""to' 

2 
129 


2 

43 

6 

2 


1 




60 


Bradford' 


72 
381 


35 

92 


7 


Butler 


2 


Carriek Sta., Pittsburgh 




9 
199 
659 


5 
22 
151 


1 
4 

31 
3 
1 
3 

26 


3 
9 

35 
10 


2 


Charleroi 


9 




22 




9 


Corry 

D ubois 9 








347 


142 


11 

26 


9 




33 










Easton i* 


28,523 
5,615 
1,167 
2,084 
3,902 

66,525 


3,122 


1,452 


646 






29 


23 

16 

1 


17 


East Pittsburgh 






14 
















Ellsworth 












70 
7 
42 
10 
22 
6 




Ellwood City 11 .. 


1,067 
14,943 


686 
7,562 


125 
3,348 






10 

54 

1 

23 


12 


Eriei2 


546 


176 


68 


Farrell 




Ford City 1' 


4,850 
4,390 


2,314 
988 


1,361 

508 


256 
248 


286 
754 


104 
438 


29 














5,909 

64, 186 

25,452 

5,749 

8,077 

4,196 

55,482 

6,449 

4,311 

47,227 


373 
4,134 
5,994 

214 
1,774 


203 

1,979 

2,972 

113 

914 


88 

917 

1,457 

33 
312 






7 
6 

23 
5 

10 


i 

22 
3 
10 
16 
46 
19 


1 








6 


Hazleton i< . . 






32 


Indiana 


230 
1,034 


56 
416 


1 


Jeannette 's 


10 


Jenkins Township i8 

Johnstown i' 


12 


15,316 

1,884 

353 

3,203 


9,225 

1,005 

195 

1,472 


1,621 
369 

77 
1,028 


900 


344 


142 
12 


44 




22 




259 

77 


112 
36 




Lancaster 


14 


23 


25 



> Includes activities at Dewey and Smeltortown. 
« Includes activities at Midway and Phillips. 
« Includesactivitiesatllamniondand Warrenton. 

* Includes activities at Logan Township. 

' Includes activities at Cymbria Mines, Elmora, 
Emeigh, Garman, Marstellar, and Saxman. 

« Inolud3s astivities at Freemansburg and North 
Bethlehem. 

' In.-ludsa activities at Custer City, Dagolia, Der- 
rick City, Gilm2r, and Lewis Run. 

• Includes activities at South Connellsville. 

» Includes activities at Big Run, Falls Creek, and 
Sandy Township. 



w Includes activities at Glendon, Redington,West 
Easton, Williains Township. 

»i Includes activities at Hazel Dell and "Wurtem- 
burg. 

12 Includes activities at Lawrence Park and Wes- 
ley ville. 

" Includes activities at Cadogen and Manorville. 

!■• Includes activities at Ilazle Township. 

'5 Includes activities at Grapeville and Penn 
Manor. 

i» Includes activities at Inkerman. 

" Includes activities at Conemaugh, Dale, Fern- 
dale, and Franklin. 



23 



Table 24. — Fordgn-hom white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June ,30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns- 
Continued. 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-bom 
while males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
bom 
wliite. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners 


Candl- 
dates' 
wives 


Pennsylvania— Contd. 
Lansford 


8, .321 

9,288 
19,240 

5,316 
42,694 


3,154 
3,099 
1,254 
344 
12,631 


1,833 

1,646 

750 

209 

6,551 


325 

645 

205 

67 

2,548 


240 


92 


26 
6 
10 


10 
10 
2 


23 




14 


Lebanon i 


55 


6 


4 












48 


44 


60 


Maltby 










1,244 
11,775 

7,598 
17,532 

4,241 

.5,812 

3,8t0 
18,877 

8,329 
36, 280 

7,707 
27,875 

1,353 
11,324 

4,338 

1,549,008 

533,905 

2,592 

6,223 

4,583 
18,713 

2,954 














1 

71 

8 


1 




5,475 
1,487 
4,927 

072 
1,107 

853 
7,187 

8C5 
8,620 
2,376 
4,015 


3,210 

795 

2,727 

328 

5r3 

376 

3,923 

482 

4,707 

1.389 

1,691 


462 
272 

1,286 
270 
219 
117 

1,935 
148 

1,326 
227 
477 






30 
14 


62 


Monongaliela City < 

Mount Carmel!' 






9 


209 


110 


18 17 


13 






3 

16 


3 








48 


19 


















59 35 


54 








3 

16 

18 

25 

38 

12 

1 

1,664 

442 


3 
19 
23 
19 

5 
23 


4 


New Castle 


401 


64 


21 


New Kensington 


19 


447 


105 


16 




2 


Old For^e 


5, if 8 

1,216 

382,578 

140,436 

225 

656 

451 

7,068 

805 


2,741 

f56 

167,072 

70,148 

101 

201 

184 

3,942 

396 


897 

325 

69,415 

28,797 

82 

136 

118 

a35 

146 






24 










Philadelphia ' 


14,906 
12,295 


4,490 
3,626 


1,396 
508 


1,686 


Pittsburgh 


461 


















Cratton 






























172 
















McKccs Rocks 


14,702 
1,045 

96,071 

6,4.55 

6,346 

129,867 

19.588 

15,270 
3,634 

19,973 
9,462 
7,414 

3,134 

9,060 

5,133 

8,533 

1,959 

13,344 

11,080 

4,715 

955 

67, 105 

31,860 

1,396 


6,0C8 


3,617 


632 






















Reading 


8,812 
1,827 

780 

35,112 

2,788 

3,819 

892 
8,362 

753 
1,677 

4E5 
3,369 
2,361 
1,554 


4,528 
1,103 

431 

17,461 

1,517 

2,249 

543 
4,423 

392 

891 

249 

1,796 

1,213 

805 


1,430 
243 
208 

7,930 
867 
519 
72 
655 
203 
337 

1 
652 
545 
452 


385 


81 


29 
3 

31 
117 

16 
8 
8 

10 


36 


27 


St Clair 




St. Marvs 


120 
1,643 


i9 
973 


' 'ihi' 

17 


1 




158 




12 








3 










South Bethlehem 






12 

1 

2 


10 

















2 


BrackenrJdge 










Taylor 
























Titusville 


77 


19 


1 

39 

28 

7 

2 

4 

82 

1 


4 
4 
21 
4 
3 

■■"57' 
4 


2 


Trafford City 


1 


Uniontown 


1,447 
2,035 
1,556 


717 
951 
802 


243 
583 
282 


1,157 

77 


379 
37 


29 




2 




4 


Wheatland 






1 




16,078 
■i,332 


7.899 
1,153 


3,754 
723 


2,449 
53 


926 
24 


76 


Williamsport " 


3 


Woodlawn 










' lacliidis activities at Liobanan Ind^panlont Bor- 
ough, North CoPQwall To.vaihip, South Lsbanoa, 
and West Lebanon. 

« Includes aitivMties at Dravosburg, Rlizabsth 
Township, Port Vu3, anl Vcfj.iilles. 

•Incluijs activities at Roitraver Township. 

*Incliil3s activities at Coirtn?y, Finleyville, 
Hazel Kirk, Milesville, Manowa Miaes, and Sunny 
Side. 



* Includes activities at Atlas, Diamondtown, 
Keiier, an 1 Kulpmont. 
« Includes activities at Moorwood and Standard. 
' Inolud3S activities at Germantown. 

8 Includes activities at Pittock and Stow Town- 
ship. ^ 

9 Includes activities at Creighton, East Deer 
Township, Olassmere, and Hite. 

'» Includes activities at Newberry. 



24 



Table 24. — Foreign-horn white males of voting age, 1910, naturalization papers Jihdin 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or ix)wns — 

Continued . 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 


• 


Total. 


Foreign- 
born 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Caadl- 
dates' 
wives. 


Bhode Island. 
Bristol 


8,565 

7,878 
22,754 

5,848 
21,107 
10, 107 

9.8?5 
27! 149 

2,681 


2,9ol 
2.454 
10,664 
1,346 
5.674 
3,678 
4,181 
6,256 
770 


1,503 
1,090 
4,391 

543 
2,646 
1,569 
1,687 
2,925 

384 


419 
528 

1,870 
217 

1,310 
787 
780 

1,672 
74 








1 
1 

69 
2 
8 
1 
2 

31 


1 


Burrillvi'le ' 








1 


Central Falls . . 






58 
2 


91 




247 


20 


2 




7 


















2 


Newport ^ 


428 


iii 


42 


27 


















Providence 


224,326 
15,808 
5,935 
6,585 
8,696 
38, 125 

26,319 

10,753 

5,791 

263 

8,392 

14,094 
2,187 
3,787 

131, 105 
110, 364 

92, 104 
36,981 
78, 800 
96,614 
3,673 

7,522 
3,439 
92,777 
4,057 

4,8&3 
8,698 
1,943 
13,546 

4,879 
29, 494 
67,452 
127, 628 
34,874 

3,849 

24,298 

2,051 

2,289 

396 

2,749 


76,303 
3,380 
2,313 
2,393 
2, .347 

16,539 

446 

1,865 
822 


32,863 
1,595 

981 
1,011 

9&5 
6,540 

227 

897 
498 


12,988 
681 
379 
383 
410 
2,300 

103 

509 
216 


5,955 


1, 537 


237 


293 


349 






















:::::::: 




2 

7 
18 

2 

7 
2 




Westerly* 


186 


85 


5 
17 

104 
47 


7 




24 


South Carolina. 
Columbia 


12 

107 
41 


2 

22 
10 


1 


South Dakoa. 
A berdeen 


4 


Huron 


8 






Lead '" 


2,336 
2,215 


1,447 
1,119 


547 
658 


121 
144 
23 
43 

186 
132 

264 
392 
435 
381 
30 

41 

17 
864 


106 
13 
15 
15 

54 
35 

91 
123 
165 
206 

10 

35 
6 

257 


77 
14 




1 


33 


Sioux Falls 


2 


Vermilion 




Yankton 


791 

6,467 
2,993 

5, 219 
6,164 
6,318 
17,407 
329 

1,518 

725 

19,035 

1,303 

996 
1,103 


355 

3,403 
1,436 

2.811 
3,503 
3,466 
7,354 
156 

656 

394 

8,675 

703 

503 
470 


248 

1,664 
951 

1.501 
1,962 
1,754 
3,114 
98 

399 

307 

4,335 

236 

219 
365 


10 

44 
3 

7 
35 
21 
21 


1 

31 

6 

19 

37 
31 


2 


Tennessee. 
Memphis 


33 


Nashville 


3 


Texas. 
Dallas 


10 


Galveston 


12 


Houston 


29 


San Antonio 


27 


Victoria 




trtah. 
Logan 




1 




Park City 




Salt Lake City 6 

Murrav 


44 


67 


60 


Vermont. 
Bellows Falls 


5 
14 

8 
942 

12 
16 
714 
253 
37 










IJennington 










Bethel 






1 
2 


1 


Rutland 


1,767 

60 

450 

3,564 

4,085 

770 

19 

5,152 


807 

39 

250 

1,820 

2,040 

414 

12 

2,818 


498 

27 
130 
931 
943 
212 
6 

1,439 


330 

2 

16 

210 

121 

14 




1 


Virginia. 
Harrisonburg 




Lynchburg 


5 

77 
12 

7 


7 
20 
13 

8 


3 


Norfolk 


20 


Richmond 


n 


Roanoke ' 


6 


Salem 




Washington. 
Bellini;ham 


167 


60 


52 
5 
6 


36 
15 


41 


Black Diamond ^ 


13 


Blaine 












3 


Burnett 














Cle Elum 


1,145 


705 


207 


163 


56 


3 


3 


1 


Clipper 





ila^.lil).5 aiti/itiis at Ilirrisville, Mapleville, 
an:l MuDi/ille. 

2 fnslalji iHiyiths at Ashtoa, Lonsdale, Man- 
vill?, an J s^alley Fills. 

" Includ3i a3tivities at Jamestown and Middle- 
town. 

■• ln^liid3s astivities at Ashaway, Bradford, and 
Stonington. 



^ In?lud3s activities at Central, TerraviUe, Terry, 
anJ Trojin. 

6 Injlul.'s aotiviti?s at Midvale. 

' laHudJs activities at Vmton and Virginia 
neiijhts. 

8 Includes activities at Franklin. 



25 



'^''fiJ^nJ !^T^^'*!J^'^'"^.'''^''^ ""'^'* of voting age. 1910, naturalization papers fiUd in 
fctiuued! ' ' """^ ^^^es furnished, by States and citUor to^ 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 



Washington— Contd. 

Everett 1 

Lvnden ' 

Olympia 

Renton '^ 

RoshTi < 

Seattle 

Spokane 

Tacoma 

Walla Walla 5 

Wilkeson 

West Virginia. 

Charleston 

Clarksburg 8 

Fairmont 

Huntington 

Jenkinjones 

Kevser 

Losan 

MorffantowTi ' 

Parkersburg 8 

Piedmont ^'. 

Thomas 'o 

Weilsbureii '. 

Wheeling 12 

Uenwood 

McMechen 

Wil'iamson 

Wisconsin. 

Appleton" , 

Ashland 

Barron 

Be'oitu 

Chippewa Falls ^■> ... 

Cold Spring 

Gudahv'o.; 

Eau Claire 

Fond dii Lao 

fimnd Rapids" 

Green Bay is 

De Fere 

Janesvilie 

Kenosha " 

I>a Crosse 20 

Madison 21 

Manitowoc 

Marinette 

Menasha. 



Population, 1910. 



Total. 



24.814 

1,148 

6,996 

2,740 

3.1?6 

237, 194 

104,402 

83, 743 

19,364 

899 

22, 996 
9,201 
9,711 

31,161 



3,691 
18,310 
18, 797 
6, £21 
25,236 
4,477 
13,894 
21,371 
30,417 
25,531 
13,027 
14,610 

^^ . , 6,081 

Menomome 5,036 

Mi. ford 



3,705 
1,640 
9,150 

17, 842 
2,054 
2,354 
4,189 

41,641 
4,976 
2,921 
3,561 

Ifi, 773 
11,594 

1,499 
15, 125 

8,893 



Foreign- 
born 
white. 



5,472 



899 

1,003 

1,556 

60,835 

21,220 

21, 463 

2,361 



Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 



Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county Julv 1, 
1918, to Jtme 30, 
1917. 



Total. 



3,294 



1,014 

481 
630 
514 



467 

588 

934 

36, 097 

12,389 

12, 191 

1,239 



Natural- Decla- 
izcd. i ration.s. 



1,673 



130 



1,113 
560 



262 

5.418 

1,846 

213 

227 

3,257 
3,475 



543 
256 
370 
304 



567 
278 



122 

2,679 

1,124 

105 

147 

1,573 
1,864 



293 
301 

16, 438 

5,495 

5,808 

682 



242 
112 
127 
175 



196 
180 



2,395 
2,155 



1,307 
1,11s 



1,684 
4,245 
3,062 
1,152 
4,056 
942 
1,997 
7,642 
6,043 
4,174 
2,534 
4,027 
1,420 
1,258 



901 
2, 173 

1,585 

589 

2,078 

472 

979 

4,141 

2,965 

2, 105 

1,258 

2,059 

661 

640 



55 
1,413 
1.59 
35 
16 

1,287 
1,299 



237 
"49 



2,543 

1,296 

707 

90 



Peti- 
tions. 



Names furnished. 



De- 
clar- 
ants. 



873 
2?6 
242 
25 



80 
1.30 
93 
22 
93 
18 
35 
69 
30 



29 

40 

247 



654 
836 



114 

173 

61 

210 



203 
1,411 
1,0.35 

368 
1,524 

263 

646 
1,401 
1,769 
1,174 

789 
1,.544 

257 

421 



57 
399 
120 
194 

18 



Peti- 
tioners. 



Candl- 
dates' 
wives. 



36 
406 

79 
117 

16 



93 
■74 
51 
118 
36 



109 
204 
67 
130 



534 
120 
2:« 
130 
71 



54 
149 



117 



183 
111 

160 
56 
68 



28 
314 

78 
120 

19 



15 
100 
15 
22 
9 
7 



) Includes activities at East Everett, Lowell, and 
Pmchurst. 

2 Includes activities at Evcrson, Glendale, and 
Ten Mile. 

' Includes activities at Earlington. 

* Includes activities at Beekinan, Mine 5, and 
Ronald. 

=■ Includes activities at College Place. 

6 Includes activities at ^damston. Glen Falls, 
nepzibah, Meadowbrook, North View, Rcv-nolds- 
villp. Tin Plato, and Wilsonburj;. 

' Includes activities at Sabraton and Westover. 

« Includes activities at Bclpre and South Side. 

» Includes activities at Bervl. 
•o Includes acti\ities at Ben Bush, Copeton, and 
Pearce. 

» Includes activities at Beech Bottom and Fol- 
lansbec. ' 



12 Includes activities at Bridgeport, Elm Grove 
and Warwood. 

13 Includes activities at Kaukauna, Kimberly.and 
Little Chute. " 

H Includes activities at Rockton, 111., and South 
Beloit, 111. 

1^ Includes activities at Cornell and Irvinr. 

16 Includes activities at Fernwood, St. Frauds 
and Stormy Hill. 

'■■ Includes activiiies at Bison Village, Port Ed- 
wards Village, Rudolph, Saratoga, Seneca, and 
Sieeel. 

'8 Includes activities at Duck Creek. 

" Includes activities at Pleasant Ferry and 
Somers. 

2» Includes activities at La Crescent, Minn., Ona- 
lasla, and West Salem. 

21 Includes activities at Burke, MacFarland, and 
Sun Prairie. 



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Table 24. — Foreign-born white males of voting age. 1910', naturalization papers filed in 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, and names furnished, by States and cities or towns— 

Continued. .i- 

[Figures not available where blanks occur.] 



State and city or town. 


Population, 1910. 


Foreign-bom 
white males of 
voting age, 1910. 


Naturalization 
papers filed in 
county July 1, 
1916, to June 30, 
1917. 


Names furnished. 




Total. 


Foreign- 
bom 
white. 


Total. 


Natural- 
ized. 


Decla- 
rations. 


Peti- 
tions. 


De- 
clar- 
ants. 


Peti- 
tioners. 


Candt 
dates' 
wives. 


Wisconsin— Continued. 
Milwaukee i 


373,857 
3,346 
5,731 


111,456 

681 

1,313 


56, 101 
325 
637 


26,155 
211 
43S 


3,824 


1,223 


831 


540 


542 








4 


9 


1] 




8 
212 

34 
721 

40 


12 
157 

27 
229 

19 




Oshkosh 


33,0(i2 
3,792 

38,002 
5,637 
3,968 


7,406 

889 

12,509 

1,366 
708 


3,598 
534 

6,590 
753 
381 


2,106 
251 

2,834 
336 

258 


44 


28 


41 


• I^ ort Washington 

Racine * 




115 

i' 


87 
1 

1 


. 89 




1 




2 










Shobovean * 


23,398 

902 

8,692 

40,384 
4,850 
3,830 
8,829 

16,560 
6,645 


8,667 


4,359 


2,061 


273 
15 
41 

384 


80 
11 
41 
142 


26 


23 


26 


Shell Lake 




Stevens Point 


1,712 
13,772 
836 
1,158 
1,949 
3,918 
2,420 


856 

8,201 

461 

631 

914 

1,920 

1,491 


516 
3,735 
117 
438 
608 
1,310 
386 


2 

29 
4 


8 
66 

i' 


10 




40 




2 


Washburn 


96 
135 
157 


55 
250 
117 










7 
12 


2 
20 


5 


West Allis ' 


11 


Wyoming. 


32 


3 






1,892 
319 
843 

8,237 
975 

4,256 

8,408 






















26 
88 
21 
23 
19 

123 
13 

139 


21 
31 

7 

8 

12 

29 

8 
57 
















30 
125 


i 
1 


1 


Laram to 


1,153 


713 


378 


1 








794 

809 


547 
540 


256 
272 


















23 
6 


































Total 


32,984,575 


8,528,196 


4,013,125 


1,774,947 


395,682 


112, 163 


44,433 


35,200 


34, 457 







EEC APIT UL ATION. 



United States proper 
Cities listed 

Balance 



91,972,266 
32,984,575 



58,987,691 



13,345,545 
8,.528,196 



4,817,349 



8,646,817 
4,013,125 



2,633,692 



3,034,117 
1,774,947 



1,259,190 



437,338 
395,682 



41,686 



131,982 
112, 163 



19, 819 



44,433 



35,200 



34,457 



' Includes activities at East Milwaukee, town of 
Greenfield, and town of Lake. 

2 Includes activities at Lake Side. 

8 Includes activities at Cameron, Canton, and 
Haugen. 

* Includes activities at Howards Grove, Kohler, 
and Mosel. 



6 Includes activities at Rothschild and Schofield. 
« Includes activities at West Milwaukee. 

7 Includes activities at Elmo and Evansville. 

8 Includes activities at Conroy, Diamond ville, 
Elkol, Frontier, Glencoe, Oakley, Quealey, and 
Sublet. 

9 Includes activities at South Superior. 



Note. — The total population, 32,984,575, includes population of places shown in footnotes wherever 
uch figures are available. 

The accessions to the ranks of cities and towns cooperating through 
their school organizations show most interestingly the grow^th of 
this work during the year. While there were 1,754 cities, towns, and 
communities working with the bureau in this great national under- 
taking, there were 1,828 from whom favorable responses were received 
and in which steps leading to the organization of citizenship classes 
were initiated. From 74 of these places, however, the bureau received 
later advices showing that the original desires of the school authorities 



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could not be realized. These places have not been included in the 
list, and no reference will be made in this report to these communities, 
from whom next year unquestionably there will be a more substantial 
response. The bureau tnerefore is looking forward conservatively 
to the further expansion of its influence into these and other com- 
munities which as yet have not been reached. It firmly believes 
that the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, will witness the organiza- 
tion, and in stronger ties, of over 2,000 cities and communities for 
cooperation with the bureau in perfecting the citizenship-class organi- 
zations and their interrelation more completely with the vocational 
education work which is now in process of greater expansion under 
the recent act of Congress creating the Federal Board for Vocationa\ 
Education. 

In addition to sending the names of the candidates for citizenship 
to the public schools and personally addressed letters to over 114,000 
of the candidates for naturalization, the bureau also furnished to all 
of these communities thousands of copies of the Outline Course in 
Citizenship, the naturalization forms, and the Syllabus of the Natural- 
ization Law. Rejoeated requests have been received by the bureau 
for additional copies of these official forms and the official publica- 
tions. Thousands of copies of the Proceedings of the First Citizen- 
ship Convention also have been distributed to the public schools. 
There has been an unusually heavy demand also for the bulletin of 
the bureau entitled "The Work of the Public Schools with the 
Bureau of Naturalization." Thousands of copies of the proceedings 
of the reception to newly naturalized citizens held at Philadelphia 
on May 10, 1915, have been called for by reason of the address con- 
tained therein of the President of the United States. This has 
been used as a basis for English teaching by the public-school 
authorities. 

In many communities it has not been possible to effect at once a 
reorganization of the public schools to provide citizenship classes. 
Many local conditions have operated to prevent the appropriation 
of funds, but notwithstanding tliis and in order to cooperate with 
the bureau and afford citizenship instruction to the candidates for 
naturalization, 900 communities out of the 1,754 have made arrange- 
ments with the schools in adjacent communities for their candidates 
for naturalization to attend the citizenship classes until such time as 
funds could be provided locally. Assurances have been received 
from many of these of their determination to secure an independent 
organization the coming year. 

The number coming into cooperation with the bureau each month 
during the past year is shown in the subjoined table. 



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Table 25. — Statement showing net increases, by months, in the number of cities, towns, 
and rural communities cooperating, directly or indirectly, with the bureau in its edu- 
cational work. 



Date. 



Places cooperating. 



Directly, Indirectly. Total 



Net 
increase. 



July 31,1916.. 
Aug. 31, 1916. 
Sept. 30, 1916. 
Oct. 31, 1916.. 
Nov. 30, 1916. 
Dec. 31, 1916. 
Jan. 31,1917.. 
Feb. 28, 1917. 
Mar. 31,1917. 
Apr. 30, 1917. 
May 31, 1917.. 
June 30, 1917. 



547 
547 
587 
631 
697 
747 
785 
816 
844 
836 
836 
854 



Total increase. 



66 

66 

67 

73 

94 

107 

109 

614 

790 

873 

873 

900 



613 

613 

654 

704 

791 

854 

894 

1,430 

1,634 

1,709 

1,709 

1,754 



41 
50 
87 
63 
45 
531 
201 
75 



45 
1,141 



Concurrently with this responsive support throughout the United 
States there has been a corresponding response received from the 
judiciary sitting in naturahzation cases. A striking evidence of this 
has been found in the number of petitions for naturahzation that 
have been continued by the courts during the past year instead of 
being denied on the ground of ignorance of our institutions of govern- 
ment, illiteracy, and other causes; while there are no exact figures 
available from preceding years to show the causes of continuances, 
the number during this year is known to be greater than heretofore. 
The increase in the number of petitions continued commenced in 
the year preceding, and because of the growth in this phase of natu- 
ralization work the records were prepared to make a report during 
the course of the year. The report shows that a total of 31,210 
petitions were continued during the course of the year; 9,151 of these 
continuances were due to ignorance on the part of the applicants for 
naturalization of the responsibilities that attach to American citi- 
zenship or to ignorance of our institutions of government. Among 
these were many thousands who are included in the general grouping 
of illiterates whose petitions were not denied on the sole ground of 
illiteracy. There were refusals to admit 559 on this latter^ ground. 

In the preceding year 11,925 petitions were dismissed, while during 
the year under review 9,544 were similarly acted upon, being a 
reduction of 2,383, or 20 per cent. The number of petitions dis- 
missed on account of ignorance of our institutions of government, 
including illiteracy, was less during the past year than in the year 
1916, which undoubtedly was caused by the large number of petitions 
continued for further preparation in the public school by the appli- 
cants for the responsibilities of citizenship. 

In other respects there has been extensive cooperation offered by 
the commercial organizations throughout the country. They havo 
initiated and supported local movements of various kinds to stimulate 
the interest of the foreigners in the citizenship classes and have sup- 
ported movements initiated by the school authorities having for 
their purpose the inclusion in the budgets of provision for the inau- 
guration of night classes where there was no provision made or for 
enlarging the funds where the work already had been established. 



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In 117 cities and towns mass meetings were held, some at the 
instance of the Bureau of Naturalization and others because of the 
reaction resulting from the awakening of the sense of civic responsi- 
bility in the minds of the leading members of the communities. 
From these meetings many invaluable methods of closer coopera- 
tion resulted. New ideas were injected into the local activities. 
Plans of far-reaching and practical effect were evolved. Proposals 
were received by the bureau urging greater activities in the coal- 
mining districts; financial aid from Federal or State Governments 
to provide payment for the teachers engaged in the night class work; 
the need for some defined textbook on citizenship instruction, and 
appeals for such a textbook to be furnished by the Bureau of Natu- 
ralization; means to educate the foreign women, especially those 
who are held in their homes by reason of domestic duties and on 
account of their children. 

Meetings were held of representatives of all nationalities, typical 
among which and of the method pursued is that in the city of Syracuse, 
N. Y. The chamber of commerce of that city held a meeting com- 
prising delegates from foreign societies representing 56 different and 
distinct organizations and nationalities in that city, and attended 
also by the Representative in Congress and the mayor of the city. 
Circulars were printed and members of the chamber of commerce 
formed themselves into committees to arouse the American citizens 
as well as the foreign-born residents to the importance of the activity, 
and as a result a large increase in the attendance upon the citizenship 
classes directly followed. 

Mass meetings were held in the following cities and towns: 



Alabama: 

Birmingham. 
California: 

Los Angeles. 

OaHand. 

Pasadeni. 

San Uiego. 

San Joso. 
Illinois: 

Aurora. 

Belleville. 

Benton. 

Buclner. 

Chicago. 

Chicago Heights. 

Christopher. 

Geneva. 

Johnston City. 

Joliet. 

La Salle. 

Marion. 

MoLno. 

Pana. 

Peru. 

Rock Island. 

Spring Valley. 

Streator. 

Taylorville. 

WauVegan. 

West Frankfort. 
Indiana: 

East Chicago. 

Gary. 

Hammond. 

Indianapolis. 

Mishawaka. 



Indiana — Continued. 

South Bend. 

Vincennos. 

Whiting. 
Iowa: 

Albia. 

Cedar Falls. 

Bella. 

Rock Rapids. 

Siou.x City. 
Kentucky: 

Louisville. 
Louisiana: 

Amite. 

Hammond. 

Independence. 
Massachusetts: 

Cambridge. 

Fitchburg. 

Westfleld. 
Michigan: 

Ann Arbor. 

Bay City. 

Benton Harbor. 

Detroit. 

Flint. 

Grand Rapids. 

Kfilrimazoo. 

Lan.sing. 

MusVegon. 

Saginaw. 

Stambaugh. 
Minnesota: 

Duluth. 

Minnoaprlis. 

New Dulhtu. 



Minnesota — Continuea. 

St. Paul. 

Virginia. 

West Duluth. 
Missouri: 

Kansas City. 

St. Joseph. 
Nebraska: 

David City. 

Elyria. 

Lincoln. 

Norfolk. 

Omaha. 

Wahoo. 

Wilber. 

Wymore. 
New Jersey: 

Newark. 
New York: 

Albany. 

Auburn. 

Carthage. 

Cohoes. 

Ithaca. 

Jamestown. 

Mount Vernon. 

Rochester. 

Schenectady. 

Troy. 

YoiiVers. 
North Dakota: 

Washburn. 
Ohio: 

Ashtabula. 

Massillon. 

Steubenville. 



Oklahoma: 
Coalgate. 
Muskogee. 
Wilburton. 

Oregon: 
Astoria. 
Portland. 

Pennsylvania: 
Braddock. 
Erie. 

McKees Rocks. 
Pittsburgh. 
Pre.sston. 
Scranton. 
Vanderprift. 
Williamsport. 
Wilmerding. 

South Dakota: 
Aberdeen. 

Utah: 
Park City. 
Salt Lake City. 

Washington: 
Seattle. 

Wisconsin: 
Aubrey. 
Kenosha. 
I a Crosse. 
Madison. 
Milwaukee. 
Oshkosh. 
Racine. 
Sheboygan. 



These mass meetings have aroused a greater interest in naturali- 
zation proceedings than ever before. The hearings have become 
more formal. The proceedings of the renunciation of allegiance and 



30 

the investing of the new allegiance have become surrounded by an 
atmosphere of dignity and solemnity which is a radical departure 
from the hurly-burly, lack of dignity, and complete informahty sur- 
rounding naturahzation activities in the courts prior to Federal 
supervision. 

In all these places practical results are uniformly reported. Almost 
invariably citizenship classes were organized as a direct result of 
these mass meetings. Enrollments were made ranging in numbers 
from 10 or 15, or even less, up to as many hundred. Increases 
invariably resulted of large percentages over the preceding attend- 
ance, and a great awakening of the civic conscience throughout the 
entire country in aU matters relating to the naturalization of aliens 
was effected. Ahens were inspired to apply for citizenship by making 
their declarations of intention or taking final action looking to their 
admission. In many instances reports show that while the attend- 
ance was increased immediately following the mass meetings, it con- 
tinued to grow, and the influence of the meeting was felt .in this way 
for many weeks. 

At different times during the early portion of the year letters were 
written to the governors of the States of North Dakota, Minnesota, 
Iowa, and New Mexico calling their attention to the citizenship work 
of the bureau with the pubUc schools throughout the country and to 
the fact that the laws of their States prohibited the use of public- 
school funds for the education of adults. It recommended that legis- 
lation be enacted in those States to supersede those laws. As a 
concrete evidence of the support which these State executives felt 
this national citizenship work should be given, they urged such legis- 
lation upon the lawmaking bodies of their respective States. 

In North Dakota the State legislature passed an act authorizing 
the establishment of night schools for adult foreigners and provided a 
specific appropriation of $7,000 to meet the expenses. This was 
approved by the governor on March 10, 1917. 

On April 17, 1917, the legislature of Minnesota passed an act, 
signed on the following day by the governor, for the same purpose 
and authorizing an expenditure of $25,000 therefor. 

On March 24, 1917, the legislature of the State of Iowa enacted a 
law to provide for the compulsory installation of a course of instruc- 
tion in the night schools upon the petition of 10 or more adults. 

In New Mexico, on March 13, 1917, a substantially similar provision 
was made. 

The bureau feels that these States are to be congratulated upon 
having such action taken by their legislatures; and it looks upon 
these acts as a great forward step toward a uniform movement 
throughout the United States upon the part of the pubhc schools to 
provide the means whereby the candidates for American citizenship 
may secure that aid in their progress toward their goal which the 
public schools should offer. 

Throughout the United States there is a greater demand in evidence 
for the inauguration of this work than can be met with the funds 
available. In nearly every community with which the bureau has 
communicated there has been the uniform response of immediate 
cooperation. Volunteer workers are solicited by the school authori- 
ties from among the ranks of the school-teachers and from among 
the patriotic citizens. In some places classes have been organized 



31 

where only one candidate has presented himself. Such commence- 
ments have steadfastly persisted, and such interest has followed that 
the membership of the classes has increased steadily. 

The school authorities urge a more active interest on the part of 
the employers of labor. They have appealed to them to urge their 
employees of foreign birth, and of native origin as well, to appreciate 
the advantages that will follow the attendance upon the courses of 
instruction which have been organized. The members of the field 
personnel of the bureau also, in carrjnng on the work of examining 
candidates for citizenship, largely between trains and in evening hours 
and at other times as well, have interviewed the school authorities, 
commercial bodies, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, and others 
and have aroused interest in the communities. By this activity they 
have brought about the organization of citizenship classes for the 
candidate for naturalization in hundreds of communities. In all of 
these places where the organization of citizenship classes has been 
proposed the very fact that an association between the Federal 
Government and the local city, town, or village school will be effected 
has stimulated a new interest and led to the organization of the 
public schools into Americanizing centers. 

From all over the United States requests continue to come to the 
bureau in its correspondence and through its field force for it to lend 
its aid in every possible manner. In some instances these requests 
have been to furnish funds to make it possible to equip the local school 
organizations. This, of coui"se, has not been contemplated by the bu- 
reau in its activities and is only referred to here as showing the extent 
to which Government support is desired. Insistent and repeated caUs 
have come to the bureau for furnishing the textbook which has been 
in the course of preparation from the material furnished the bureau 
by the public schools. This book has been authorized for publication 
as an appendix to the Proceedings of the First Citizenship Conven- 
tion, on which occasion the subject matter then prepared was fully 
discussed. Through such a book the public-school attendance un- 
doubtedly will be increased both in numbers and in regularit}^. The 
candidates for citizenship in larger numbers will be brought to these 
citizenship classes and their attendance and interest retained untU 
acquisition of the knowledge which the course contemplates. 

Through the efforts of the citizens of these various communities 
the aid of patriotic, social, and religious bodies has been enlisted and 
their active interest and participation secured in this institution of 
Americanization now almost completely established. 

Closer relationship is being built up between the Bureau of Natu- 
ralization and the various State librarians and librarians in the pubhc 
libraries of many municipahties throughout the United States. 

Especially from among the mming districts have come the 
strongest appeals to the bureau for the organization of these citizen- 
ship classes. One of the greatest difficulties in these localities has 
been the lack of funds for carrying on the work. 

As evidence of the cordial and hearty support industrial leaders are 
^ving the citizenship classes, many of them are allottinor certain 
hours on specified days when their workmen will be privileged to 
attend the classrooms. Others are paying for the time spent by the 
workmen in the classrooms, these payments being made upon the 
reports of the teachers. 



32 

In tlie last annual report reference was made to the fact that 
knowledge of different languages is wholly unnecessary in teaching 
the foreigners our institutions of government. The baneful influences 
of the introduction of foreign languages has only too clearly been 
demonstrated by the dominant forces of foreign influence, particu- 
larly the Prussian, which have been disclosed by the events of the 
great war into which this Nation has been plunged. No foreign stu- 
dent desires to have the foreign influence in the American citizenship 
classes. Some of them undoubtedly have been deterred from entering 
these classes through diffidence, timidity, and backwardness causccl 
by the lack on their part of th6 knowledge of English. This has led 
to expressions of desire for one of their nationality as a teacher. 
As these classes have grown in their practical value the illiterate 
body has progressed beyond that primitive stage. At the present 
time the most that is desired is an introduction or presentation to the 
classes. This still causes a leaning toward one of their own people. 
The classes now being recruited from the ranks of aU nationalities 
are having accessions through the influence of the student body. 
No longer do the aliens care for their own people as instructors. They 
have gone to the other position of pref errmg American teachers only. 

It is impossible to avoid mixed nationalities in classes as a general 
condition. It is the exception, though in some classes but one 
nationality is found. Where the classes are mixed, as in most of 
the instances, the national prejudices at once express the desire for 
an American teacher. So strongly has this been felt that classes 
have diminished in attendance under the tutelage of foreign instruct- 
ors, only to expand and increase in attendance upon supplying native 
teachers. The common bond of a common tongue, and that our 
tongue, is the tie that strongest binds. 

Many most encouraging reports have been received from various 
parts of the country of the enthusiasm of the cities and communi- 
ties, and of the eagerness of the alien adults and the efforts to satisfy 
the desire that is latent in all aliens for American citizenship. 

School authorities of the leading cities of the United States have 
stated to members of the bureau that after years of experience, 
study, and effort they have been unable to develop a system or plan 
which will serve as a real interest to the alien. To all of these the 
bureau unhesitatingly offers the solution. Every alien coming to 
the United States is lured here by the thought of the American 
freedom and liberty. This thought may or may not be the upper- 
most one in his mind. He may be drawn to these shores by induce- 
ments, real or false, but back of it aU is the hope that at some time 
he may become, or his children may become, a part of the citizenry 
of this country. The task for the schools, therefore, is to develop 
that latent desire; give it the means for growing and maturing. 
American citizenship, presented through the medium of the American 
public-school teacher, will hold the attendance of all aliens enrolling 
and will induce others to enroll. 

Of necessity with the development of this American spirit must 
go hand in hand the means for his material development. The 
better job than the one he has is the goal primarily of each alien. 
It is tile object that is most insistently holding itself before him. 
No illiterate can be trained or developed to the stature of eligibility 



33 

to American citizenship without the concurrent development of his 
capacity to acquire the better job. 

Citizenship instruction must be accompanied by vocational instruc- 
tion. While the States are availing themselves of the funds pro- 
vided by the Federal Goverment lor vocational education, their 
efforts will not be properly complete without building up the strongest 
alliance between citizenship preparation and vocational preparation. 
With the millions that have been made available by Congi-ess for 
the several States in the development of the vocational preparation, 
the student body presenting itself for vocational instruction should 
have included in the curriculum the citizenship instruction which is 
being developed by the national cooperative unity of the State public 
schools and the Federal Goverment tlu'ough this bureau. 

In the last annual report the Executive recognition which this work 
had previously received by the attendance of the President at the 
reception to newly naturalized citizens held in Philadelphia at the 
instance of the bureau on May 10, 1915, was referred to. Again this 
recognition by the President was given by his attendance at the first 
citizenship convention, held by the bureau in the city of Washington 
in July, 1916. This convention held sessions from the 10th to the 
15th of July, inclusive. On Thm'sday, the 13th, the President of the 
United States delivered a memorable address to those in attendance 
at the convention. In the course t)f his remarks the President said: 

I have come here for the very simple purpose of expressing my very deep interest 
in what these conferences are intended to attain. It is not fair to the great multitudes 
of hopeful men and women who press into this country from other countries that we 
should leave them without that friendly and intimate instruction which will enable 
them very soon after they come to find out what America is like at heart and what 
America is intended for among the nations of the world. * * * 

So my interest in this movement is as much an interest in ourselves as in those whom 
we are trying to Americanize, because if we are genuine Americans they can not avoid 
the infection. * * * 

A few reports are here given, selected at random from among the 
hundreds received in the bureau, to show the spirit and accomphsh- 
ment of those cooperating in this great Americanization: 

In Lexington, Mass., with the opening of the school year a class of 
18 illiterate adult foreigners was organized. These aliens were 
taught to read and wi-ite and at the same time were started on the 
road to citizenship through the elements of civil government. 

At Pella, Iowa, the superintendent of schools reported that 30 
adults responded to the opportunity for a class, and upon securing 
the services of a teacher the organization was effected. 

In the small town of Roslyn, Wash., the night schools for aliens 
secured an enrollment of 170. 

The night schools for foreigners in St. Louis were inaugurated upon 
the entire-year-around basis. 

The Itahan Civic League of Tangipahoa Parish, La., urges the 
formation of citizenship classes and states that there are more than a 
thousand industrious Italians in that parish and that it is an injustice 
to them and to the United States not to give them the opportunity 
and facilities for becoming American citizens. 

In Salt Lake City the Daughters of the i^nerican Revolution have 
organized a systematic visiting of the homes of the candidates for 
citizenship anci urge those who are in need of instruction to attend 
the pubhc night schools for adult foreigners. 



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From Albany, N. Y., comes the report by the superintendent of 
schools showmg that rallies have become an established iristitiition 
in the schools of that city. The most recent ones were one for Jewish 
girls, one for Italian men and women, and a general mass meeting. 
The superintendent reports: "They are so thoroughly a part of our 
school system that they are hardly worthy of comment." 

From Caney, Kans., the superintendent of schools reports an 
enrollment of 86 members and the continuance of the schools through 
the summer for 12 weeks, both day and night, with an enrollment of 
103. 

The chamber of commerce of Hammond, Ind., advises the bureau 
that more than 1,000, the largest portion of whom were adults and a 
large percentage of them of foreign birth, were attending the night 
schools and studying E]:!glish and the history of our country; that 
the schools are doing a great work along the lines suggested by the 
Bureau of Naturalization ; and that the work is of the character very 
much needed in the community. 

The principal of the Illinois Avenue School, of Atlantic City, N. J., 
reports nearly 200 foreigners in attendance at the night schools, with 
hundreds of others throughout the city whom they are constantly 
trying to reach and induce to attend. He states: "Those whose 
names are furnished to us by your department are easy to get in 
touch with, but many others who have never applied for fu'st papers 
are the bigger problem." 

From Telluride, Colo., the report shows the organization of a citi- 
zenship class with 85 enrolled and prospects of increased attendance as 
the sessions continue. 

In Erie, Pa., the schools for foreign-born women were started with 
an attendance of approximately 75, confuied wholly to Italians. 
This is an unusual development of tliis work, as the Italians are loath 
to have their wives and sisters attend night classes. Nurseries in 
which the mothers leave their children while they attend the classes 
are provided hj the board of education of Erie, with the v.^omen's 
clubs cooperating. Volunteers from among the Italian girls have 
come forward to care for the little children placed in the nurseries. 
Members of the women's clubs supervise the nurseries, and the super- 
intendent of schools li-eports this arrangement to be successfully in 
operation. This departure is new and plans are in store for including 
foreign-born women of other nationalities in this educational system. 

A report from the Civic Education Association of Erie County, 
N. Y., shows a campaign of publicity commencing on December 11, 
1916, and continuing until Christmas Day. This campaign con- 
sisted in printing large column advertisements, with sample lessons, 
in the daily newspapers in Buffalo city and the appointment of a 
committee of 50 leading citizens by the mayor to formulate an 
Americanization policy. 

The director oi evening schools in Cambridge, Mass., states: "We 
have received the cards sent from your office, which give the helpful 
information about the Cambridge residents who have taken out their 
first papers. Each one of these people receives a personal note, 
advising them in regard to the educational opportunities offered and 
encouraging them to attend a certain evening school which is most 
convenient to their homes. We appreciate the splendid help received 
from your Bureau of Naturahzation." 



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From Waterloo, Iowa, the report shows the teachers are enthusi- 
astic over this Americanization work and they say: "It is pathetic 
to see the eagerness with which the students apply themselves." 

The report from the superintendent of schools at St. Marys, Pa., 
says: "I beg to advise you that we opened our night schools on 
November 17, and the success with which we have met is absolutely 
astonishing. I never undertook any work in my life that has pro- 
duced such satisfactory and gratifying results. Personally it is 
especially gratifying to me for the reason that the members of our 
board were somewhat in doubt regarding the advisability of the 
plan on the start. Being quite active in the management of the 
school myself, I have explained to the boys that on attaining a cer- 
tain degree of proficiency I shall permit them to apply for their first 
papers. They look upon this as a diploma or certificate of progress, 
and the way they dig in to earn it is astonishing." 

This report is most remarkable in the spirit manifested by the 
superintendent of these schools. He has a mil grasp of and insight 
into the work before liim. To place the declaration of intention be- 
fore the aliens in the public schools as a prize — as a badge of honor 
and distinction and reward for proficiency — is a new thought. If this 
same idea has been adopted by other public-school superintendents, it 
has not come to the attention of the bureau. It is not intended to in- 
dicate that other superintendents or teachers have not had this 
high conception of opportunity, but this report is the first to be re- 
ceived. The report was written after the night schools had been in 
operation for more than a month. 

The mayor of Montclair, N. J., reports that the night schools of 
that city are reaching a large number of adult foreigners and accom- 
plishing splendid results in their behalf. 

In the common pleas court of Cambria County, Pa., at one hearing 
the court continued 100 petitioners out of 250 applicants for naturali- 
zation until they could become better acquainted with the "American 
language." This action followed the organization of citizenship 
classes in Johnstown, at which place most of these candidates for 
naturalization live. This is but one of the many evidences of the 
coordinate action that is extending throughout the country in the 
judicial support of tliis Americanization work. 

From Council Bluffs, Iowa, the superintendent of schools reported 
the organization of a class with 40 students and expressed every 
assurance that there would be a larger attendance due to the activi- 
ties of prominent ladies of Council Bluffs who were making a house- 
to-house canvass of the alien residents of that city. This work was 
undertaken without funds being provided in advance, and he re- 
ported this as the oiily problem, with no danger of this Americaniza- 
tion work being discontinued. 

From Galveston, Tex., the report comes not from the superintend- 
ent of schools or those in the school work, but from an alien. His 
report, bearing date of November 29, 1916, is as follows: 

As a foreigner, arriving in the United States oi' America from Barcelona, Spain, 
barely five months ago, with practically no knowledge of the English language, I take 
this means of expressing my boundless gratitude and admiration for the Ball High 
School night course of English for adult foreigners. 

Beginning my serious study at the time these classes were inaugurated, in the early 
part of this month, I have found myself making wonderful progress in English. Our 
teacher, Miss Alice Block, certainly takes great interest in instructing her pupils, not 



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alone in the great American language but also in the laws, the Constitution, and the 
history of America, manifesting clearly her great aptitude as an instructor skillful in 
the art of making her lesson interesting to her pupils — so different from the apathy dis- 
played by professors in certain other countries who are content to impart a mere 
smattering 

I will be glad and thankful if you will publish these few lines, publicly testifying 
to the efficiency of these courses for foreigners and to my homage and thankfulness 
toward the good people who instituted them, for they are indeed a boon to the earnest 
foreigner who desires to become Americanized. 

The report from South Bend, Ind., shows the organization of a 
class of 75 as a result of a mass meeting at which about 250 were 
present. 

The evidence of the hearty support given to this Americanization 
work by the individual American citizen is shown hj the report from 
the chief examiner in whose district is located Atchison, Kans. The 
superintendent of night schools at that place is reported by the 
chief examiner to have organized an evening school in citizenship 
and enrolled approximately 20 aliens. One evening in the heat of 
last summer, when the thermometer stood at 100°, the superintendent 
of schools walked about 3 miles along the railroad track to the round- 
house for the sole purpose of bringing to an Italian section hand the 
benefits to be derived by attendance upon the citizenship class. 

The superintendent of the Milwaukee public schools reported as 
follows in January: 

Permit me at this time to express to you my appreciation of the cooperation which 
has been extended by your bureau to the extension department of the Milwaukee 
public schools in making the evening schools of Milwaukee a success. 

To me the evening schools have always been the weakest link in our educational 
systems. Persons who wished to attend were welcomed, but no concerted effort had 
ever been made to invite or attract them to the schools. 

Your bureau through its cards and circular letters has opened up a new field for us 
in Milwaukee, which we have been able to work with marked success. 

We are putting forth special effort to make our citizenship classes a success. I have 
been pleased at the willingness of your staff to assist us by giving valuable suggestions 
as well as material assistance. 

These new activities of your bureau have done much to promote the evening schools 
of our city. 

The superintendent of public instruction of Wyoming reports that: 

Although Wyoming is far removed from the Atlantic seaboard, where the great 
mass of foreigners first come to the United States, there are a surprisingly large number 
of aliens in some of the coal mining and other districts in the State. This fact brings 
to us the problem of preparing for effective and intelligent citizenship the foreigner 
who applies for natm-alization. 

The State department of education has, during the past two years, in several needed 
localities, encouraged the establishment of classes for these new Americans. Courses 
have been organized at Rock Springs, Kemmerer, Superior, Cheyenne, and Sum-ise, 
chiefly through the efforts of the public-school officers in cooperation with the United 
States Bureau of Naturalization. Much help has been given by the chief of the Denver 
district, Mr. Paul Lee Ellerbee, and his assistants. But the undertaking so far has 
been less far-reaching than it should be. If we are to continue to admit the foreigner 
to citizenship we should provide for his instruction. Much of this can be done by 
the use of the public-school plant, and this use should be encouraged wherever it is 
needed. 

The director of vocational education at Vincennes, Ind., reported 
gratification at the cooperation which this bureau offered to him along 
educational lines; that he has organized a class for foreigners with an 
attendance of 14. 

The superintendent of public schools at Richmond, Va., states: "I 
have examined your Outline Course in Citizenship and believe that 



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you are approaching in exactly the right way the work that we should 
give to foreigners applying for citizenship." 

In February the report from Lincoln, Nebr., showed 600 students 
in the evening classes, of whom 400 had made sufficient progress to 
be placed in the citizenship classes. 

At Greeley, Colo., the sessions of the night citizenship class are 
frequently attended by the district judges who sit in naturalization 
cases. The citizenship class work, because of its interesting charac- 
ter and the practical results attained, has aroused enthusiastic interest 
and support throughout the county in which Greeley is located. 

The school board of the independent school district of Cedar Falls, 
in Black Hawk County, Iowa, passed the following resolution: 

1. That the night school conducted by the night school department of the Cedar 
Falls Woman's Club and which has been in operation throughout the winter months 
for three years is a subsisting and permanent success, having taught great numbers 
of naturalized foreigners in our midst in all the common branches, also bookkeeping, 
typewriting, and shorthand. 

2. That a continuance of said night school will operate to raise the standard of 
living of the foreigners in our city, will make them better citizens and of greater use 
in the community. 

Wherefore, we heartily indorse this movement on the part of the night school 
department of the Cedar Falls Woman's Club and recommend that the Bureau of 
Naturalization cooperate with them and extend to them any assistance within its 
power. 

One superintendent of schools strongly presents the situation in the 
following language in a communication received from him : 

I think that in order to get the best results in naturalization the whole subject 
will have to be taken out of the hands of local courts and that your bureau or some 
similar organization will have to have the final word. There are ignorant though 
clever foreigners in this community who are exploiting their fellow foreigners by 
promising to fit them for naturalization. They have the candidate learn by rote a 
catechism of questions. If rumor be true, they claim to have a pull with the natural- 
ization authorities, and there is no doubt that they are charging well for this assumed 
sersdce. As it is, naturalization is entirely at the beck and whim of the local judges. 
In a good many cases there is no doubt that it is used as a vote-getting proposition. 

I do not know that our night school efforts are of much value in the direction of 
preparing citizens, because intelligence is not now the prime requisite in securing 
naturalization papers. I doubt if it ever has been. Taking the county as a whole, 
it is my opinion that little of substance is required ; that almost anybody can be natural- 
ized if he gets the proper people interested in his case. 

This is a situation against which the bureau has been contending 
with increasing success — but in some localities with relatively slow 
progress — ever since Federal supervision was authorized. It is 
steadily making inroads against this class of grafters in plying their 
nefarious trade and has had the satisfaction of driving^ many of them 
out of their chosen vocation during the past year. They are plying 
an insidious calling, however, and their methods are covertly carried 
on, but they can not continue to exist much longer. The cause of 
the Bureau' of Naturalization is a righteous one and theirs is not. 
Thev must give way to the enlightenment of intelligence and the 
higher ideals. 

State superintendent of North Dakota: ''I wish to assure you that 
the State department wiU cooperate with you in every particular in 
all things vou undertake for the betterment of citizenship among 
the people of this State. I most heartily approve of the movement 
and shall give it my unqualified support." 



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The Rainier Chapter of the Daughters of. the American Revolution, 
in Seattle, adopted the following resolution: 

Now therefore be it resolved, That Raiiaier Chapter, Daughters of the American 
Revolution, of the city of Seattle, hereby commend the public-school authorities of 
the city of Seattle and the Bureau of Natiu-alization for the work already accomplished, 
and approA^e the plan of the Brn-eau of Naturalization herein set forth, and uige upon 
the members of this chapter that they assist in every way possible this great educa- 
tional work and lend their individual and collective influence in causing attendance 
upon these night schools on the part of these aliens seeking the high privilege of 
American citizenship. 

The message of the governor of the State of Minnesota forwarded 
to the State legislature in 1917 contained the following: 

We have within om- borders a people who desire education. We fully realize that 
without our schools the loyalty of to-day to our State and to American institutions 
would be impossible. There are those who may believe it desirable to change the 
amounts of money appropriated to particular departments or branches of our educa- 
tional system, giving more to some and less to others. There are citizens who, on 
account of the situation in some portions of the State, wisely advocate the establish- 
ment of more night schools for the purpose of giving adults, especially those of foreign 
descent, an opportunity to acquii'e at least an elementary education, to learn more of 
American institutions, and thxis become more familiar with the purposes and ideals 
of American citizenship. 

The director of foreign work and principal of the Central Night 
School in Birmingham, Ala., expresses the belief that '' through the 
cooperation of the Bureau of Naturalization and its representatives 
we hope to do more effective work with the foreign people of the 
Birmingham district." 

The superintendent of schools at Altoona, Pa., reports: 

. About 75 members of our classes in American citizenship were em'olled last term. 
The remainder, 125, are new enrollments this" term. We enroll new students in these 
classes almost every oA^ening. We have one of our strongest elementary teachers 
employed to give special indi^ddual instruction to the beginners. Just last week we 
enrolled two who were unable to r^ad or write a word of English. By giving them 
special individual help they are rapidly acquiring an English vocabulary and will 
soon be able to go along with the rest of the class. Recently the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road Co. brought a number of Mexicans to Altoona to assist in railroad work. We 
are enrolling many of these Mexicans and have inaugurated a plan by which we expect 
to secure the attendance of all of them at our night school. We believe a good solution 
of the Mexican problem is to give large numbers of these Mexican laborers employment 
in oiu* American cities and then secure their attendance at our evening schools and 
teach them the things they need to know to become good citizens. We find these 
Mexicans who are attending our night school here in Altoona a splendid set of fellows. 
Many of them are anxious to learn the English language and apply themselves dili- 
gently. If we can keep them here for several years and thoroughly Americanize 
them and then send them back to Mexico the Mexican problem will be solved. 

The superintendent of schools at Superior, Wyo., reports that the 
evening school for adult aliens has proved to be very interesting and 
a very useful field of work; that much good could be done by having 
classes for the adult citizens, and that the pupils have made excellent 
progress in their classes and show a better attitude toward the 
Government the better they understand it. 

The superintendent of schools at Paterson, N. J., has reported 19 
classes of aliens in the schools under his supervision, with an average 
nightly attendance of 425, and that as satisfactory results are being 
obtained as could be expected. 

The first term of the school year, commencing October, 1916, 
showed an enrollment of 423 aliens in the adult night classes at 
Ithaca, N. Y., with an enrollment later reported as approximating 



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500 for the second term, in January. Most interesting and elaborate 
exercises characterized the closing of each term, together with the 
presentation of a certificate of efhciency. By these and other 
interesting activities on the part of the school authorities many of 
the aliens have been held to the classes and completed the full course 
while some have completed their preparations to enter college. 

The teacher of the class of 35 in citizenship in the Fourteenth 
Street School of Los Angeles, Cal., after requesting the continuance 
of the cards of the resident candidates for citizenship, urged the 
furnishing of the textbook and all of the naturaUzation forms, in- 
cluding the Outline Course in Citizenship, stating that the Outline 
Course gives information regarding citizenship that has been of 
invaluable assistance and urging that further helj) be furnished by the 
bureau. 

The superintendent of schools of Lincoln, Nebr., reported through 
the naturahzation field ofhcers an attendance of 600 foreign-born 
persons in his evening classes, with 84 in the citizenship class; that 
the number in the latter class is increasing constantly; and that his 
classes arc conducted in conformity with the plan suggested in the 
Outline Course in Citizenship. 

United States District Judge Jacob Trieber has volunteered his 
services as an instructor in the night schools at Little Rock, Ark., 
in connection with any citizenship classes that might be established 
there by the public schools. 

Tliis patriotic announcement by a United States district judge, and 
one who has taken such an active interest in naturalization in the 
past, is one of the many signs of hope for the full Americanization 
of all of the candidates for naturalization and inspires a greater love 
and closer sense of oneness in the minds of the aliens who live in 
our midst and of our American citizens as well. 

The principal of schools at Mount Pleasant, Pa., made the following 
report: 

You may be interested to know that eight men of our night schools went before the 
examiner "this week, and all passed and were complimented for the thoroughness of 
their preparation. The men were so very much pleased that they went direct to the 
bank where llr. Hays, their teacher, is employed during the day, and held a genuine 
Italian-Austrian jollification party. I believe their success will be a great thing for 
our school, whicli already has surpassed anything in education I ever knew before. 
The men say they mean to remain in the schools until they close in order to learn more. 

The superintendent of schools of Sheridan County, N. Dak., con- 
ducted two rural free night schools during the winter, one a few miles 
from Anamoose and the other at Goodrich. There were 5 or 6 in 
attendance at Anamoose and 20 at Goodrich. This is most patriotic 
work, and under the conditions normally prevaihng in the Northwest 
such patriotic work can be carried on only under the most rigorous 
winter conditions. 

Tlie superintendent of schools at Telluride, Colo., expresses the 
belief that the schools of the Nation are doing a valuable service 
for the foreigner since the citizenship movement has been taken over 
by the Bureau of Naturalization. 

In Elmira, N. Y., the superintendent of schools reports an average 
attendance of not less than 15 upon the citizenship class and that the 
students display great interest m their studies. The superintendent 
states that ho has made excellent use of the cards containing the names 



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of the candidates for citizenship sent to him by the bureau and urges 
their continuance. The presiding judge at the naturaUzation hearing 
in Elmira on April 20, 1917, pronounced the applicants who were 
admitted by him that day the best prepared candidates he had ever 
met, and attributed this result to the excellent work in the citizen- 
ship class. 

A citizenship class was started with the opening of the school year 
by the superintendent of schools at Somerset, Colo. The enrollment 
consisted of coal miners — 10 Austrians, 9 Italians, and 6 Finlanders, all 
of whom are now applying themselves intensely to the instruction 
and have expressed strong desires to become citizens. They are taught 
reading, writing, spelling, civics, and some geography and history. The 
superintendent reports that all the residents of the town tmnk the 
school is an excellent undertaking, and they intend to have the work 
continued. The citizens of the town expressed through the superin- 
tendent of schools great appreciation of the cooperation of the 
Bureau of Naturalization, and he reports that the students are all 
anxious to get their naturalization papers. 

From San Jose^ Cal., the superintendent of schools reports an 
attendance of 335 foreigners in the citizenship classes. The first 
graduation class consisted of 10, all of whom secured their admission 
to citizenship after having taken a full year's course of instruction in 
the schools. He expresses the belief that there will be an attendance 
of 1,000 at these classes during the next year. 

In Racine, Wis., the continuation schools are working in coopera- 
tion with this bureau and conducting citizenship classes throughout 
the entire year. The classes have been organized with a view to 
graduating the candidates a week before their admission to citizen- 
ship by the court. 

In Altoona, Pa., the citizensliip class attained an enrollment of 200 
in its elementary and advanced classes. Italy, Germany, Austria, 
Russia, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Ireland, Sweden, Syria, and 
Mexico were the nations represented by the adult aliens. The 
majority of the membership of the classes were unable to read or 
write a word of English when they entered the classes. Before the 
end of February they had learned to read and write English at least 
fairly well. The evening was divided into two periods, so as to 
accommodate those who could not arrive at the time the first period 
commenced. The work of the regular night school instructors was 
supplemented by addresses on various phases of American citizen- 
ship delivered by representative citizens. In all of these classes the 
almost invariable report was a quickening of the desire on the part of 
the alien student body and of the candidates for citizenship for 
naturalization. 

The usual number of letters of gratitude to the bureau have been 
received, and among them is quoted the follo"vvang: 

I have received your letter to send me to school and become a better citizen and 
get a better job with thanks in the best way that I could thank you. 

I'm a fellow that does not drink or smoke and always led a clean life. My great 
object was some day to become a cop on the police force, but now that this country 
is at war, why I have enlisted in the 12 N. Y. Infantry N. G. I was up there as soon 
as war was declared against Germany and was told to come April 9 ; and I was there 
at the time told to come and passed the doctor examination, and now I'm in the 
Federal service of " Uncle Sam." 

But if I ever come back from the war, you will be the first one that I'll write to 
send me to some school where I can learn a proper education. 



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The letter, just received from your office, concerning the United States citizenship, 
as well as the sincerity from this noble Government of the United States toward ita 
applicants for citizens, is more than a pleasure to me. 

Whether it is this office's duty to send such letter to every applicant for citizen or 
otherwise, it is of no my scheme to question about; but I do take this as a chance to 
express my highest regard for the country and Government best under the sun. 

The above expression may sound as an old common phrase on one's lips but please, 
whoever may it concern, be far from thinking so; for, so far as it concerns me, I do 
speak by this conviction, not the lips. If I but could be in position which would 
enable me to teach what America "not materially but psychologically" mean to-day 
for whole the world, and how the whole world Vould look to-day if there was not 
America, then there would be no one who would deny the words above. 

Once, some time ago, walking with a would-be friend, an American, I have been 
asked how do I like this country? I say I think I can not like it—— He, not expect- 
ing such an answer, suddenly pushed me with his shoulder, and with a sign on his 
face of being ashamed to haA'e me as a partner in walking who say he does not like 
this country. I then, taming his nerves, asked him why do you not ask me why I 
do say so, in same time explaining him my meaning; I say I think I would commit 
an offense toward this country should I say not I love it instead of do like. 

And to-day the more I say I can not merely like it, for the live pictures of Washing- 
ton and Lincoln would be abused at such a word. If I say I like it only, I would do 
abuse to the man of to-day who recently spoke out the world this thr^e words : Peace 
without victory. 

Among other inquires there is a question in the application for United States citizen- 
ship which says: t^Tiy do you intend to be a citizen of the United States? To that 
question there ought to be no other answer from every one intending to be United 
States citizen than this: Because I am ashamed to live in a country like this without 
being not its citizen. 

As illustrative of the individual interest manifested by aliens, the 
follo\\"ing letters will show their activity, A newly naturalized 
citizen in Scammon, Kans., circulated a petition and secured the 
proper number of signatures to justify the school board in opening 
a citizenship class at night. The action of this individual was brought 
to the attention of the chief naturalization examiner, wlio wrote 
him a letter of inquiry. The followi]ig is his response.: 

Please excuse me for that I did not answer you so long on letter you Avrote to me 
on date November 2. 

As I wrote to you last time, we going start that night school about October 1. We 
did start. First week they attend that night school good : sometimes is come from 
14 to 17 men. Now they all droped off but us 6. 

T am going try get some more so that we going keep up. Inclosed please find piece 
paper with names them men who's attending night school yet. 

I thanking you: I gladly given you any information you desire from me about that 
night school. 

In April a second communication was received from him, which is 
as follows: 

As I wrote to you on November, 1916, that I am going get some more men to night 
school in Skidmore, Kans., so that we gon keep up the night school till May this year. 

I was geton two more; one is come once, the other twice. Month of February 
school board is close down, because was not us enough. 

We still gon in school once in the week. Mr. — is so kind, he coming teach 

us once a wek without getting eny pay. 

The followijig resolution, which was passed b}^ the student body of 
the r.ight school at Norwich, N. Y., demonstrates that the loyalty 
of the foreign element of that citj' may be depended upon in this 
time of crisis: 

AVhereas for more than two years past the great nations of the world, with the ex- 
ception of the United States, have been engaged in war for the preservation a.nd 
defense of those principles which are near and deai' to us and have been making 
common cause against the dual monarchies in behalf of those rights and prin- 
ciples: and 



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Whereas the United States of America has until recently been able to maintain 

its neutrality and has at the same time endeavored to protect its rights and the 

honor and integrity of its people: and 
Whereas Germany has now violated the rules of international law. and the lives 

of American citizens and the property of our people have been destroyed: Now 

therefore be it 

Resolved, That we, the Italian residents of the city of Norwich, assembled at the 
night school maintained for our benefit, do hereby extend our well wishes and our 
sincere hope of victory to Italy, the land from which we came, and that we do renew 
our allegiance to the Government of the United States, the country of our adoption, 
and that we pledge to the United States our loyal support in the struggle that is to 
come for the protection of the flag and the maintenance of the glory and honor of 
the United States. 

Resolved further, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the mayor of the city 
of Norwich, the Commissioner of Naturalization at Washington, D. (J., for transmis- 
sion to the President of the United States, and also a copy to the national defense 
committee of Chenango County. 

On February 1, 1917, an enthusiastic mass meeting was held at 
Minneapolis, and despite the fact that the thermometer registered 
20° below zero there was an attendance of about 800 persons. The 
following resolution was unanimously adopted by the meeting : 

Whereas the board of education of the city of Minneapolis, recognizing the neces- 
sity and importance of providing facilities for resident foreign-born men and women to 
learn our language and the fundamentals of our Government, has provided free evening 
schools for this purpose; and 

Whereas the United States Bureau of Naturalization is actively cooperating with 
these evening schools here and elsewhere, with a view to procuring the attendance 
therein of all foreign-born men and women who have declared their intention to become 
citizens of the United States and who may need this instruction: Now therefore be it 

Resolved, by citizens and intended citizens of the city of Minneapolis in mass meet- 
ing assembled, that we heartily commend the action of the board of education of this 
city and the United States Biu*eau of Naturalization in this regard, and we urge the 
extension of this work on the part of said bureau to each place in the United States 
where it may be needed. 

The Women's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the 
RepubHc, headquarters of Colorado and Wyoming, in General 
Orders, No. 4, February 15, 1917, adopted the foUoAvmg resolution, 
which was sent throughout the territory of the department : 

It is the hope of the Naturalization Service that a citizenship class will be established 
in every county in Colorado and Wyoming, so that there need no longer be any excuse 
for the admission to citizenship in these States of aliens who are not qualified to exercise 
the rights and effectively perform the duties of citizenship. 

The Bureau of Naturalization of the United States Department of Labor has estab- 
lished classes for the education in citizenship of aliens in the public schools of Denver, 
Pueblo, Greeley, Grand Junction, Trinidad, Fort Collins, and Salida, Colo.; Laramie, 
Rawlins, and Sheridan, Wj^o. The prospects for establishing similar classes in the 
following places are exceedingly good: Walsenburg, Fort Morgan, Colorado Springs, 
Canon City, and Cripple Creek, Colo.; and Cheyenne and Rock Springs, Wyo. 

These classes are organized particularly to meet the needs of aliens who wish to be 
naturalized, but are open to anyone who desires to increase and clarify his knowledge 
of the principles upon which the Government of the United States and his own State 
is founded. 

It is necessary that every means be adopted to instruct in the ideals and principles 
of American citizenship those who come to our land, and to make them not merely 
partakers of our liberty but true, loyal, patriotic Americans. In this the Woman's 
Relief Corps can render valuable, patriotic assistance to our country. Your depart- 
ment president asks you to influence and assist the public-school authorities in your 
community in more firmly establishing these classes. Let us make this year memo- 
rable in the history of patriotic education. 

The true basis for cooperation between the public schools and the 
Bureau of Naturalization is found in the declaration of intention, not 
in the petition for naturalization. When the alien has lived in this 



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country for five years he may petition for iiatiiralization, if at that 
time he liolds a declaration of intention that is two years old. Hold- 
ing such a declaration of hitention and filing his petition, there is little 
hope of any real improvement which he can accomplish in the 90-day 
period that remains before the hearing of his petition for naturaliza- 
tion and his admission to citizenship if the court is satisfied. 

The ahen has no identity with the Government of the United States 
after he passes through the ports of entry under the guidance of the 
immigration authorities. His identity becomes lost when he is ab- 
sorbed in the mass of humanity at the port of entry, and, no matter 
where he may ultimately take iip his abode, lie never becomes identi- 
fied with the Federal Govennnent until he takes out the declaration 
of intention, upon which the foundation for this national undertaking 
was laid. 

Many theorists in the United States, when there was no Federal 
supervision of the naturalization law, conceived the idea that the 
declaration of intention was a purely superfluous act; that the cer- 
tificate of the declaration of intention was a superfluous document. 
Many of them still retain that idea, having made no advance in their 
studies or bein^ unacquainted with the experiences of the Federal 
administrative forces. There is nothing that has arisen in the ex- 
perience of the Bureau of Naturalization in the 10 years of Federal 
supervision that justifies this idea that the declaration of intention 
should be abolished. The Americanization work of the bureau, based 
as it is upon the declaration of intention, is the only point of contact 
the Federal Government has with the individual alien from the time 
he lands upon our soil. The use of the declaration of hitention by 
the bureau in sendii»g the names to the public schools and bringing 
the aliens of CYery community into close relationship with them has 
forever settled the question of the value of the declaration of inten- 
tion. This is onh^ a new use to whicli this "first paper" (an instru- 
ment which is peculiarly an American institution) has been put. 
If this were the only use to be made of it, it would justify its contin- 
ued existence. As it is, it is used and intenvoven into the adminis- 
trative fabric of the Government in its contact with aliens throughout 
the United States. It is a means of identification by which the 
alien makes known his right to take up Government land; by which 
he may secure emploj-ment in municipalities and in State improve- 
ment work; bv which membership in many organizations may alone 
be secured. It is the indication of the announced purpose of the alien 
to foreswear his allegiance to his sovereign and to choose the Consti- 
tution of the United States as his new allegiance. It is woven through- 
out the warp and woof of our national laws and our social and eco- 
nomic organizations. 

In carrying on its ilmericanization work the bureau has under- 
taken no systematic propaganda work in the nature of circular letters, 
posters, or newspaper publicity addressed to the public generally. 
When the work was originally organized in April, 1914, by the 
Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization, he was directed by the 
department to make such survey in the Mddle Western cities as was 
possible in view of otlier official duties that necessitated his presence 
in the headquarters cities of the various Middle Western districts. He 
was also directed by the department to pursue his investigation in 
Philadelphia during" the winter of 1914-15, at the time he was there 



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with a force of officers from the bureau bringing up the arrearage of 
the work of the clerk of the United States district court in naturahza- 
tion business. In addition to these, the cities of Cleveland, New 
York, and Pittsburgh were visited in June, 1915, by the deputy com- 
missioner at the instance of the department, and conferences were 
held with the school authorities of these cities, who unhesitatingly 
proffered their complete support to the bureau in its new undertaking. 

From these conferences held in Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, St. 
Paul, Minneapohs, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, and Pitts- 
burgh during this time it was found that the school authorities were 
most anxious to undertake the educational work of preparing the 
candidates for naturalization for citizenship responsibilities. 

With the completion of the organization of the citizenship reception 
in Philadelphia in May, 1915, the bureau sent out an announcement 
through newspapers of the launching of its Americanization work 
with the aid of the public schools of the United States. This 
announcement received publicity in many newspapers from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific. On August 15, 1915, a second announce- 
ment — of the opening of the citizenship classes by the public 
schools — was sent out to the newspapers. 

Letters had been sent to the superintendents of schools and favor- 
able responses received. These letters went to approximately all of 
the superintendents of schools in cities of 4,000 population and over. 
Later letters were sent to the superintendents of schools in cities of 
2,500 population and over. 

For a time announcements were made of the organization of citi- 
zenship classes in the public schools, but this practice was dis- 
continued because of the increasing demands on the bureau for 
cooperation and has not been resumed. The growth has been natural^ 
entirely devoid of any stimulation or artificial interest. 

With the coming year the bureau hopes to enter into a new field 
of activity, found along the railroad lines, in the places of public 
construction work, in the mining camps, and on the ranches and in 
the homes of the ranchers throughout the comitry. Plans had been 
made for extending the work with great activity and vigor into 
these new fields durmg the past year, but the number of applicants 
seeking citizenship during the last six months of the calendar year 
was so largely in excess of any previous experience of the bureau that 
every effort was necessary in the examination of these candidates for 
citizenship and in handling the increased volume of work. 

Negotiations have been entered into, and in many instances con- 
summated, with the ''moonhght" school organizations throughout 
the many States where these schools are conducted. These nego- 
tiations have resulted in securing the admission of the adult afien 
candidate for citizenship into these classes that were peculiarly 
organized for the native-born iVmerican ilfiterate. Most flattering 
results have been secured along these lines, and will be made the 
subject of treatment in the next annual report. 

Those who are engaged directly in the activities for the primary 
purpose of safeguarding the integrity of the Nation during the present 
crisis should realize that out of these many millions of foreign birth 
may come millions who can be won to an undivided and permanent 
devotion to the institutions of this Nation. With from seven to 
eight millions holding an allegiance to other nations, and not to this, 



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the problem is a real one. It is one which is not being adequately 
solved by the accessions of 100,000 or 200,000 aliens to the body 
politic. Even with this number, it should be borne in mind that 
approximately 75 per cent failed to meet a high standard of quahfi- 
cation. Although they receive the title of American citizenship 
they but faintly comprehend its significance. 

The solution of this problem must come through the avenue of 
education. Tliere are public schools now organized, and with citi- 
zenship classes in the formative stages, into whose ranks all of these 
aliens may be brought and within whose Americanizing atmosphere 
there can be but one final result. They will adopt the institutions of 
American Government if those institutions are humanizing insti- 
tutions. They will cling to the European institutions of government 
if they find satisfaction in those forms of govenmient only. 

From 80 to 95 per cent of the aliens in the public s(;hools are not 
seekers after American citizenship. Of the many hundreds of thou- 
sands attending these night classes but 20 per cent of them represent 
aliens on the road to American citizenship; but 20 per cent have 
taken out their declarations of intention or secured naturalization. 

The education of these aliens is not a wholly national function. 
It is, on the other hand, cjuite a distinct State and municipal function, 
more especially the latter. The forces of these various boards, com- 
missions, and councils that for the time being have a national and 
State character working together for the preservation of the life of 
the Nation, are the forces which, in addition to their present efforts, 
should address themselves to this problem. If these State and 
Federal forces will concentrate some of their energies upon the Ameri- 
canization of these aliens, there is now a sufficient number of classes 
in the seventeen hundred and more of cities and to\vns where the 
public schools may accommodate for their Americanization every 
one of the aliens resident within their various communities. The 
accomplishment of this end does not call for an extravagant outlay 
of Federal funds. It may be accomplished by each community bear- 
ing its share of the expense. The administration of the naturahza- 
tion law is at no expense to the citizen taxpayer. All of the expenses 
are more than met from the fees paid annually by the candidates for 
citizenship to the clerks of courts and deposited by the Commissioner 
of Naturalization through official channels in the Treasury of the 
United States. On an average a surplus of something over $100,000 
in fees has been turned in each year since Federal supervision has 
been placed in the hands of the Bureau of Naturalization. 

Whatever additional funds the Bureau of Naturalization will need 
to do its part in cooperating with these State agencies will be in the 
nature of refunds to these aliens for the excess which they pay in 
fees over the running expenses for a good administration of the 
naturalization law. In addition, therefore, to being an investment 
of $5 by each of them for the title to American citizenship, it will mean 
virtually the payment of their tuition to the local public-school 
authorities for their preparation for full enjoyment of life as American 
citizens. To the business men this work and this plan of action is and 
has alwajrs been a sound business proposition. It is not one filled 
with fancies or with idealistic dreams wliich, while sounding well to 
the ear, do not work out and are not possible of reahzation. 



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While the number of candidates for naturahzation was largely 
increased during the past fiscal year over any preceding year, this 
startling fact should be ever present in the minds of those who are 
considering this fundamentally most important and vital question 
involving the American present, the American future in all of its 
avenues of development, social, political, and economical: There are 
approximately 16,000,000 aliens in this country; probably 50 per 
cent of these owe no allegiance to this land. In large numbers their 
allegiance is not divided — it is still faithful to the countries of their 
origin, to the sovereigns across the sea. Since this Nation has been 
plunged into the horrible vortex that has been raging for the last three 
years all over the seas and with increasing intensity upon the European 
soil, the necessity for the Americanization, the transformation, the 
arousing of the spirit of America within the hearts and breasts of the 
resident alien body has been more and more painfully apparent. 

In the organizations that have been newly created in Washington 
City, the Nation's Capital, as the direct outgrowth of the war activi- 
ties — the commissions, the boards, the councils, the many organiza- 
tions, oflicial, quasi official, and unofficial in character — none will 
have achieved their fullest usefulness if they do not realize the im- 
portance of this great Americanization problem. In the ranks of the 
aliens there are many milHons who will stand first, last, and forever, 
for the country of their adoption; whether the country has adopted 
them formally or ignored their presence, they have felt the springs of 
patriotism welling up within their consciousness. They have, some 
of them tangibly and some intangibly, adopted this country. There 
remain, however, those who in spirit still cling to the institutions, 
ties, and associations of the fatherland. There are those who are 
inimical in their hearts to the well-being of this country. They still 
feel the ties of family that extend back to the land of their origin, 
drawing them more closely than the new ties built up in this country. 
Their first interest is outside of the land instead of within it. Much 
of this failure of development of ties strong enough to displace the 
original ones is traceable to those in position to see and deal with this 
subject only in a most inefficient and unthorough manner. With 
every sixth person in the United States of alien birth, and probably 
every third one of alien birth or alien parentage, the conservation 
and development of our forces for preservation can be accomplished 
only by a wise, broad-minded conception of public duty and the full 
support given to this Americanization work which has been conceived, 
organized, and developed within the Bureau of Naturalization. The 
public through the schools, the school organizations, the teachers, the 
officers of patriotic organizations; those distinctly women's organiza- 
tions: commercial, social, and religious organizations have been 
aroused to see the value of this work. Some have given their in- 
dorsement to it. Others, in addition to indorsing it, have lent their 
individual effort for a season. Others have gone further and have 
continued to give their efforts and are supporting it up to the present 
time. 

Much has been said of Americanzation, much has been done to 
accomplish this completely. It has been preached from the rostrum; 
thrown upon the "movie screen; it has been dealt with by circular 
letters, numbered in the thousands; set forth in pleasing words and 
phrases in folders in manj^ languages, as appeals to the whole United 



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States. The Americanization problem can not be accomplished by 
these measures. It can be accomplished only by those who will be 
willing to do real and definite work to that end. It can be accom- 
plished only through the joint union of the State and Federal forces — 
and those Federal forces that have been duly constituted by law; 
by those whose legal duty it is to perform this task. Congress 
authorized the work to be done by an all-inclusive authority when 
it charged the Bureau of Naturalization with the supervision of all 
matters concerning the naturalization of aliens. 

The Bureau of Naturahzation, acting under the authority of the 
law and with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, and with the 
indorsement of its action received from school authorities throughout 
the country as shown by the number of communities in which the 
public schools have agreed to cooperate with the bureau is going 
forward with this work, and will continue to go forward until every 
alien who is a candidate for citizenship who needs instruction, who 
needs education, who needs that aid which our institutions of gov- 
ernment have created and made available for those in need — until 
all are brought within the Americanizing influence of the "oppor- 
tunity schools" which have now been planted in almost every 
locality throughout the United States. It wiU continue this work 
until the ranks of these classes are filled by the presence of all of these 
candidates for citizenship responsibilities who can in any way be 
benefited by this contact. 

There are other matters which might appropriately find expression 
in this report, but it is an established fact that such formal official 
utterances secure a reading, if they secure it at all, as they scrupu- 
lously avoid prohxity. If they fail to secure a reading, they might 
better not be written. 

Accordingly everything that did not seem essential to a compre- 
hensive view of the subject has been omitted from the report. 
Respectfully, 

RiCHD. K. Campbell, 
Commissioner of Naturalization. 

Hon. W. B. Wilson, 
Secretary of Labor. 

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